Learners to material collage rejoice! The recognition of my February 2024 four-week Fantastical Quilter’s Trophy Fish class impressed me (and Tom) to create an eWorkshop based mostly on the sequence. See the main points under.
The eWorkshop format means that you can work at any tempo you need—both quicker since you don’t have to attend every week for the following installment—or slower as life interposes itself. The eWorkshop can be there so that you can use each time you might be prepared.
Take a second to admire the quilts on this put up from college students in that fish class. These collages are nonetheless in progress, however the vibrancy of coloration and richness of sample are already on full show.
As topics for cloth collage, fish are an awesome alternative since there are as some ways to interpret a fish as there are fish within the sea. That is true for each novices—in search of a simple, low-stress topic to study the method—or for skilled quilters—who could wish to loosen up and simply have enjoyable enjoying with material.
NOW AVAILABLE!
Susan Carlson Material Collage: Fantastical Fish eWorkshop
INCLUDES:
• All 4 recordings from the four-week class.
• Prolonged 10-minute version of piecing time lapse (see under).
• Over six hours of video instruction.
• Annotated movies with “soar factors” to assist discover the data you want.
• Supplies listing
• Hyperlinks to useful weblog posts.
• Free fish sample of your alternative.
As we speak’s put up exhibits off much more of the fantastical fish quilts created in the course of the 4 week class—take a look at the fabulous Half I right here. Many of those collages are nonetheless in progress and a few are completed—both means, the vibrancy of coloration and richness of sample are on full show.
Congratulations to all you incredible material collage artists and an enormous because of those that have shared your outcomes with the remainder of us.
Studying assets referred to on this put up embrace: Serendipity Quilts, Spiral eWorkshop, Facial Options eWorkshop, Material Collage Grasp Class, 5-day on-line Zoom courses, and my patterns (together with fish and solar/moon patterns).
Click on on any of the smaller photos under to view them bigger.
Nancy Lander
From Nancy Lander of Auburn, Maine:
I used a scherenschnitte sample of a bass as a result of I take pleasure in fishing for bass right here in Maine. The fish is about 25 inches lengthy and appears prefer it’s leaping out of the water. I needed my fantastical bass to be leaping out of the water with life, quite than a mounted trophy fish. After I fish, I all the time catch and launch. The materials I selected are vivid colours with daring patterns. I loved auditioning the totally different choices and made adjustments solely after occupied with the alternatives for some time. I’m questioning concerning the quilting and am anxious to attempt it out.
I believe my largest takeaways embrace:
- go huge when creating the fish because it’s simpler to get artistic with the assorted materials (That was a shock for me. I believed my 13 inch fish seemed huge earlier than I went to the primary class. So my 24+ fish is so a lot better. I received’t hesitate to go even larger subsequent time!)
- utilizing huge daring material design photos work amazingly effectively when collaged
- trimming makes an enormous distinction to “mix” the totally different materials collectively
- utilizing a lot of totally different materials is nice but in addition reusing some elsewhere will make the piece extra cohesive as an entire
- audition, audition, audition the materials
- taking a photograph means that you can actually see it
- altering and tweaking spots earlier than glueing is useful (I posted my partly performed pinned fish on Fb to get others concepts on areas to tweak. Seems some talked about the identical two areas that have been bothering me!)
- utilizing the tulle overlay provides lots to the piece
- enjoying with material has by no means been a lot enjoyable underneath Susan’s steering!
Marnie Okay. Coke
From Marnie Okay. Coke of Leith, Ontario, Canada:
I’ve totally loved being a participant within the Fantastical Trophy Fish comply with alongside class this February. Susan is an incredible artist and really conjures up those that are lucky sufficient to be her scholar. Listening to Susan sharing her ideas as she goes by way of the artistic course of in addition to having the visible documentation has opened up the inventive prospects of cloth collage to these of us who could not really feel they’re ‘artists’. I LOVE this. Thanks so very a lot Susan.
‘ELEGANZA’ was impressed by a photograph of a Ram Cichlid, a really vibrant tropical fish, chosen as a topic for the Fantastical Trophy Fish material collage project. My earlier expertise with this artwork type was making a portrait of certainly one of my grandsons. I discovered the method by following Susan’s blogs and movies. Collaborating within the comply with alongside this previous month has been an distinctive expertise. I had a couple of aha moments: Explanations by Susan concerning the mixing of materials and shapes prolonged my understanding and helped with the 2nd and third drafts (I nonetheless have a lot to study). Most significantly, I discovered to let go of the necessity for perfection and let instinct take over; glide so to talk; and above all, I had a whole lot of enjoyable doing this.
Brenda Carter
From Brenda Carter of Fort McMurray, AB, Canada:
I selected fish from the African cichlid household utilizing African material. This specific fish caught my eye along with his big mouth. As soon as I received it performed, my husband and I believed what a enjoyable thought so as to add a cigar in his mouth.
Sheila Clark
“Finella” (24 x 18 inches), 2024 by Sheila Clark
From Sheila Clark of Sidney, BC:
I actually loved studying methods to make a cloth collage fish with Susan. It was nice enjoyable looking for “fishy” materials, experimenting with totally different textures and layers, enjoying with the materials and studying Susan’s strategies. I’m nonetheless within the strategy of deciding on the background materials, so the enjoyable isn’t over but!
Mary Schmieding Weibel
Marty Gottron
From Marty Gottron of Lee, MA:
I’ve your grasp class and have taken a few on-line programs in addition to following your weblog. I used to be notably happy that this train lastly made me loosen up a bit and check out colours and patterns that I won’t have thought of earlier than. So, an enormous thanks.
Different Posts on this Sequence
Fantastical Fish Material Collage—February Outcomes! Half 1
Fish Feast Friday: Extra Quilter’s Trophy Fish Quilts: Half 2
And Extra Fish within the Sea: Fantastical Material Collage, February Outcomes! Half 4
To return April 27, 2024