A New Starting Point at Art Van Go 8th - 10th November
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 the painted Bondaweb on was then decorated with strips of paper and few sparkles. This was then put to one side.
Another background was created. (newspaper background with painted Bondaweb on it). The students then tore the first decorated piece into strips and ironed them onto the second background. This was then decorated and put to one side . .
A third background was created and the second decorated piece was torn up into strips and ironed onto the third back ground . . and so on. This way you get a very interesting and textured piece of work.
Always use baking parchment when working with Bondaweb!!!
The group happily tearing up paper!
Playing with the torn and layered samples.
Once the group had got to grips with the technique, we moved onto to larger samples. More surface are to print and stitch onto - fabulous.
I call this technique 'Backgrounds and Pretties', and it can be found in my fourth book, Reclaimed Textiles.
These decorated papers have great possibilities. They can be put onto canvases or can be used to decorate book covers.
Sketch book covers decorated with the torn paper samples.
The decorated newspaper makes fabulous jewellery.
If you iron your decorated newspaper onto the very heavy iron on interfacing S133, you can put your sample through a die cutting machine with great results.
The cut shapes can be varnished or coated with acrylic wax and made into brooches or earrings.
We then moved onto making newspaper faux chenille. I particularly love this process. Seven layers of un-painted newspaper were layered with polyester organza in between and laid onto a background of sew in interfacing S80. Channels of about 3/4" were stitched on stitch length 4 on the machine. The channels were cut with scissors, taking care not to cut the bottom layer of S0 sew in interfacing.
Once the channels have been cut - you then texture or rough up your sample.
The faux chenille samples were then painted with a colour wash of procion dye powder and water.
Doesn't it look fab?
Viv getting a close up of the newspaper faux chenille.
Now where did these chocolates come from???
You are always very looked after at an Art Van Go workshop - they run workshops nearly every week pf the year, so there is always something fabulous to choose from. Plus - there is the advantage of the very well equipped shop.
The new workshop list should be online early in the New Year.
Art Van Go have a brilliant online website - have you seen it?
I will be back at Art Van Go on the 17th and 18th August 2017 - workshop to be confirmed.
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I am off to Shannon airport now to fly to Birmingham as I am teaching my final session of ExTex this year. I will feel very odd not arriving with a car load of equipment and materials. I am hoping that when I planned all this that I left all the right books and tools at the IDC studios. We shall see - watch this space.
Have a great weekend.
Hello girls - sorry am dashing off to Shannon.
Love to you all. You know who you are.
x x x
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