Fibrearts Australia 2014 - A workshop of two halves
Layered newspaper decorated with painted Bondaweb and then printed onto.
I can finally let you all know that I will be teaching for Fibrearts Australia at Ballarat again next year. I had to wait until it was announced this week.
The website is now live and enrolments have started - so for those of you who are interested - fibrearts.jigsy.com/fibre-arts-at-ballarat-2014
This five day workshop will combine all that I love - basic design, creating your own printing blocks and making gorgeous newspaper surfaces to print and stitch onto.
It will be the last time I teach at Ballarat for a while as I will running the Vilene Workshop at Excel in London as part of Fashion, Embroidery and Stitch at that time of year in future.
A journey of inspiration with Kim Thittichai
A workshop of two halves – Suitable for any level of
experience.
The first half will involve creating your own
inspirational journey. Painting an imaginary journey with various width
paintbrushes, this will NOT be a competition to see who is the best painter as
it is a gentle form of mark making. From this we will trace off sections and
make simple printing blocks from your own original designs. As we work through
the week we will be discussing the elements of what we consider is a good
design. It is different for all of us, no-one is right – and no-one is wrong,
it is a matter of opinion.
Taking a section from your journey.
The second half of the week is playtime. We will be
creating fabulous surfaces with paper to print and stitch onto. Using painted
Bondaweb, gilding flake and all things sparkly we will layer up with dyed and
painted old newspapers, books or magazines.
By tearing and layering repeatedly we will develop
some gorgeous textures to print onto then stitch by hand or machine. By ironing
the finished samples onto iron-on interfacings to stabilise them, a greater
range of possibilities will be open to us.
A finished item would be possible or you can decide to
develop a range of samples.
Possible finished items could be a box, a bag, a belt,
several brooches . . .
Let’s
experiment and see what happens!
A combination of layered newspaper and newspaper faux chenille printed onto and then stitched. Part of my West Pier collection.
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One of the many highlights of this week will mean I get to spend time with friends I have made at Ballarat in previous years, Mary Hettmansperger, Kerr Grabowski, Marlene Kranz and Jen Crossley - boy are we going to have a party!
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