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A New Starting Point at Art Van Go 8th - 10th November

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  A fabulous sample of newspaper faux chenille. It is already December - I apologise for the delay in writing this up. Moving house has taken more out of me than I thought.  I adore teaching at Art Van Go. The teaching area is great, the staff are wonderful, and it means I get to see Viv and Kevin. This was my last workshop for this year. A fabulous to end the year with lots of colour and texture. Working with old newspaper, books and maps has become a passion of mine - layering, colouring and generally playing to see what will happen next.     Painting the Bondaweb. On the first part of the workshop we painted up the Bondaweb and newspapers as these need to be dry before we use them.   Painted newspaper. The students ironed painted Bondaweb onto a painted newspaper background, just an A5 size nothing too big. You learn just as much from working on a small size then anything larger and you use up your material stash too soon. The newspaper background with th

ExTex 5 - session 5. Constructed Textiles. November 5th and 6th.

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 I loved this little bowl, Fabulous.  Last weekend saw the 5th session of Experimental Textiles. We were looking at and discussing constructed textiles - felt, knit and weave. It is always a fun session, lots of colour and texture.  We started off with felt making. I only teach the most basic of processes for textiles . Once a student knows the basics , if they are interested , they will be off and running.  One of the great things about teaching adults is that th ey come to a course with all their prior lear ning. It is a great springboard for creating fabulous work. They just need to believe they can do it - confidence tends to be the key. We experimented with wet felting and needle felting - great fun. First of all we tried flat felting for the group to get used how the wo ol should feel as i t be comes felted. Then we moved on to making little bowls. I favour having a a flap around the bowl to incorporate as decorat ion, we also looked at neater ways of making