Wednesday Night Review

Dominique C.: Cut and torn freezer paper masks.

I'm finally getting around to posting a few photos from the Winter 2014 session of Exploring Surface Design. I'm rounding out teaching my fifth year of this semester-long class. This session stre...etc..ch...hed out a bit due to the weather and my Dad's memorial service.

Here is a sampling of what students did this session...

Dominique C.: Printing with wheat flour paste resist

Dominique C.: Blue glue gel resist.

Elaine E.: Print block sampler over monoprinted fabric.

Elaine E.: Printing with wheat flour paste resist.

Elaine E.: Freezer paper mask and brayer rubbings with textures

Laura L: Gelatin Printing

Laura L.: Gelatin printing.

Laura L.: Lutradur screen printing.

I'm looking forward to the Spring semester. I'll be teaching a new 5 session class called: Fabric Painting, Printing and Stitching to Tell a Story with Cloth. This class was a direct result of comments from the students in the Story Cloth workshop. They wanted more time to explore.

Exploring Surface Design Spring 2012 Wrap Up Part 2

Keith Ryder: Shiva Paintstiks over wipe-up cloth

Below are fabrics completed in the spring session of Exploring Surface Design by Keith Ryder and Sheryle Yount.

The work of Keith Ryder:

Salt resist

Torn freezer paper masks with transparent paint

Folded resist

Brayer rubbings and stenciling over blue glue resist

Block printing over printed wheat flour resist

Wheat flour "crackle" over knotted resist

Block printing over cut freezer paper mask

 
The work of Sheryle Yount:

Stenciling with doily over sun printed fabric

Multiple layers of printing and painting over blue glue gel resist

Multiple layers of printing and stenciling over blue glue gel resist

T-shirt detail: Block printing over wheat flour resist "crackle"

Block printing over brayer rubbing

Block printing and stenciling

Blue glue gel with cut freezer paper mask

Exploring Surface Design Spring 2012 Wrap Up Part 1

Acoatzin Torres: Block printing over cut freezer paper mask

Last night was the final session of the spring Exploring Surface Design class.

There was much experimentation and layering of techniques during this class. I've decided to highlight what was accomplished with a gallery of each student's work.

Here is the work of Acoatzin Torres:

Monoprint

Bound resist

Folded resist

Printed wheat flour paste over painted background

Nature printing and block printing with blue glue gel

Block printing with blue glue gel

Brayer rubbings with blue glue gel

Two painted scarves with salt technique

Here is the work of Kathy Perrin:

Torn freezer paper mask with transparent paint

Knotted resist

Bound resist

Wheat flour "scratch and crackle" over monoprinted background

Final project: Painted blouse

Final project: Painted blouse

Tomorrow's gallery will include the work of Keith Ryder and Sheryle Yount.
Great work students!

Washing Out Fabrics and Thinking Ahead

After setting the fabric paint and washing out yesterday's fabrics, this is how they looked.

It got me thinking about what I'd like to do for the Strohl Gallery Shop at Chautauqua. I've been thinking about going back to some signature pieces but using my Controlled Breach technique. So I'm going to try a version of Joie de Vivre and Surely You Jest! (see printed, stitched and beaded versions below). I hope to "keep it simple", as Jennifer says. Maybe just a bit of stitching and a bit of beading (I will try to control myself!).

Joie de Vivre

Surely You Jest!

Tonight, in Exploring Surface Design we will be working with gelatin printing plates. Students in the fall and winter sessions made remarkable prints during this class. I can't wait to see what this semester's students create.

Gelatin print with dandelions and yarn by Julie B Booth

Catching Kansas Fabric Fever

Two Controlled Breach fabrics like two old friends

 Last night, I got the chance to talk to Pam and Jennifer. They just started their annual retreat together at Pam's house. We were arranging Skype time...more like a negotiation... as they are extremely early risers/early to bedders and are in an hour earlier time zone than I am.

We set the time for 10 AM this Saturday and Pam said, "Be sure to have your seatbelt on" as it will be a whirlwind tour of their time in the studio. Pam has already painted 16 yards of fabric and Jennifer has been working with her yards and yards of beautiful rusted fabrics. As I look at my cluttered work table, it is hard for me to conceive of 16 yards of fabric! Time to get my 8 foot table cleared off.

In the meantime, after my talk with them, I went down into the studio to whip up a couple of Controlled Breach fabrics (okay...okay...more like sample size). I wanted to share in a bit of all that excitement out in Kansas.

This morning, I got up (but NOT at 5:30 Central time...or even Eastern time!) and painted the second layer of fabric paint.

I'll be setting these later today and then removing the wheat flour resist.

They'll be shipped off to Kansas tomorrow along with a few other goodies...

Searching for Roy G Biv: RED

Detail of Red Chair by Julie B Booth

Today is the start of the Searching for Roy G Biv Challenge. Here's my RED:

Small set of carved wooden drawers

Coral beads from Star's Beads, Ltd.

Cardinal carved by Carl Hill of Chincoteague, VA

Printed uncooked wheat flour paste resist by Julie B Booth

Be sure to visit Jennifer Coyne Qudeen's blog for more RED photos.
If you are playing along in the Search for Roy, please leave me a comment with your blog, website or Flickr info and I will link this post to yours.

Next month's Challenge color is ORANGE on Thursday, June 21st (third Thursday of the month).