| If you are interested in booking me for a workshop please get in
touch to discuss the type of course that you would like and the level
to which it needs to be pitched. Courses are usually created to meet
the needs of specific groups. The following selection can be adapted
to be day courses or longer, but for day courses the emphasis will
be MAINLY ON DESIGN and how to develop ideas from the source. Fabric
and stitch techniques will be mentioned but will be reserved for
longer courses as time is limited on a day course. |
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| Inspired by Monet |
Create your own masterpiece inspired by the colours and textures
seen in Monet’s paintings. Techniques will include working
with coloured fabrics and threads combined with the use of bondaweb,
foils and transparent fabrics with hand and/or machine embroidery.
Water Lilies - Claude Monet
(Nympheas) 1904 |
Dawn Holden
Close up of stitched piece inspired
by Monet's painting |
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| Inspired by Hundertwasser |
Looking and discussing the work of Austrian born artist Hundertwasser,
paying particular attention to his use of line, spirals, patterns
and colour. You will create your own masterpiece developed from
your immediate responses, using layering, slashing, and appliqué.
'Das Ende Griechenlands'
(The End of Greece)
Hundertwasser 1963, mixed media
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Rhian Deal,
Colour exercise |
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| Inspired by Klee |
Create your own masterpiece inspired by the colours, patterns
and lines seen in Paul Klee’s paintings. Techniques will
include, printing and colour effects developed from observations
and simple
line drawing exercises, combined with hand and/or machine embroidery.
Florentine - Paul Klee
(Florentinisches Villen Vertel) 1926 |
Dee Highfield
Sample using monoprinting,
applied dyed scrims,
hand and machine stitch |
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| Inspired by Klimt |
| Create your own masterpiece based on the human form, using patterns
and motifs from the paintings of Gustav Klimt. Techniques to include
printing, foiling and bonding combined with hand and/or machine stitching. |
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| Discover Drawing |
| A challenging course which introduces students to working with
pencil and charcoal to create tonal drawings. The course will help
develop student’s confidence in basic drawing skills. |
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| Machine Stitched Flowers |
| Create your own machine stitched panel based on the techniques
I use in my own work and using flowers or trees as your inspirational
source. Techniques will include, piecing, bonding, heavy machine
stitching and added detail using Chroma-coal and Litho-coal. Consideration
to background treatments and finishing touches will also be discussed. |
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| Layering with Sheer Fabrics |
Students will make a small hanging or panel developed from layering
techniques to include cutting, slashing and folding. Pattern will
be used as the design source. Students will be introduced to making
simple tassels and cords by hand and machine.
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Day workshop with the
Sutton Coldfield branch
of the Embroiderers Guild
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| Double image |
| We will be working with two images developed from personal abstract
designs, to create a concertina'd structure. This piece of work or
series of works will be carried out initially in bonded appliqué,
but further techniques and skills will be discussed and used as appropriate.
Referencing and researching the work of other artists will be used
as a tool for furthering personal development. Very exciting effects
can be created, which would lend themselves to patchworkers and quilters. |
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| 3D Effects for Textiles |
| This course has been especially designed to help us look at ways
in which we can use drawing and designing to push ideas in a challenging
way to create both two and three dimensional effects. Work will primarily
be carried out in paper but with plenty of discussion as to how these
ideas can be moved into textiles. Ideas will quickly progress by
working through a series of exercises. Definitely a course for the
adventurous mind. |
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| Dyeing and Textile Decoration Workshops |
I can offer a wide variety of topics related to dyeing and decorating
fabrics. You can book me for a workshop on any of the following
subjects.
Dyeing a colour wheel, Dyeing graded colours, Dyeing a family of colours,
Dyeing complementary colours, Monoprinting, Transfer Printing, Making
and using simple blocks and stencils, Tie Dyeing, Indigo Dyeing, Devore,
Discharge Techniques, Resist Techniques.
Dyeing a graded
colour scheme |
Wax Resist |
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| Starting a Sketchbook |
| Experimenting and playing with colour and mixed media techniques
in creating exciting pages in a sketchbook |
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| Courses exploring aspects of Design |
| Drawing and designing are often the areas that frighten students.
These courses are designed to make the process of ‘design’ easy
to understand and above all enjoyable. Courses include: Focus on
Line, Focus on Pattern, Focus on Texture, Focus on Colour, Focus
on Form. |
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