Fascinating Bugs and Butterflies Comply with-Alongside Outcomes: Pupil Cloth Collage Outcomes 3!


Cicadas, butterflies and June bugs, oh my! Maine in September means the day by day temperatures aren’t reaching fairly as excessive, the nights cool off a bit extra, and the vacationer stage has slowed down. However, the crickets are nonetheless chirping, the dragonflies are nonetheless flying, I’ve yet one more monarch butterfly that should emerge from its chrysalis, and the collage bug submissions from college students in my Fascinating Bugs and Butterflies Comply with-Alongside proceed to movement into our e-mail field. Life is nice.

Truly, you can say that “life is groovy,” in keeping with the bug that Grace Crocker submitted (element above). Her daughter Bonnie’s bug (following Grace’s under), is self-described as “wonky.” All the bugs on this third installment of submissions are amazingly bedecked in colours and patterns that embody: regal lace robes, lunar-lit wings, and pattern-filled components. They’ve advanced from easy line-drawings to multi-colored dimensional creatures which can be actually… fascinating.

One other thanks to all those that have despatched in pictures of their work and the entertaining tales to go together with them. Sharing the love of cloth collage has been an effective way to wind down the summer season season. If you happen to haven’t already, please do take a look at the opposite two Fascinating Bugs and Butterflies Comply with-Alongside Outcomes posts right here: Half 1, Half 2.

It’s onerous to consider, nevertheless it’s been lower than a month since this Thursday Night time class collection ended—a lot progress has been made on these collages already. Most are nonetheless in progress, however some are getting completed already. If you happen to took the category, preserve sending in your submissions—ship us updates as nicely—there shall be time to get extra buggy posts out earlier than the snow flies. If you happen to missed the category however have been impressed by the bug and butterfly collages you’ve been seeing, ship your work in too—and share the love.

Peace Out—and Carry on Collaging.


Studying assets embody: Fantastical Fish eWorkshop, Serendipity Quilts, Spiral eWorkshop, Facial Options eWorkshop, Cloth Collage Grasp Class5-day Dwell On-line Zoom Lessons, and my patterns (together with fish and solar/moon patterns).


Grace Crocker

From Grace Crocker of Chico, CA:

I used to be not focused on doing an insect however totally take pleasure in these classes with Susan. At my daughter’s suggestion I made a decision on this “ bug.” Enjoyable to do and it was attention-grabbing what number of constructive feedback got here from others who had as soon as owned a “bug.” Including hippie signage and a tye-dyed background was my last path to the period.


Bonnie Crocker

“Wonky Bob” (26 x 32 inches), 2024, by Bonnie Crocker

From Bonnie Crocker of Chico, California:

Meet Wonky Bob. I discovered him whereas searching a public-domain web site. Jaundiced and drawn with a barely misshapen type. I knew immediately that Bob was the bug for me. My first makes an attempt at collage had been awkward and like Bob, a wee bit wonky. Studying the important position shade worth performs was an epiphany. Experiencing how forgiving Susan’s method is, was one other. I had deliberate for Bob to be a ‘steampunk’ bug. As I labored, that wasn’t taking place, so I let him develop extra organically. I’m fairly happy with the outcomes. Susan’s “Fascinating Bugs and Butterflies” class was informative, inspiring, and a ton of enjoyable. I extremely suggest her courses to everybody.


Kathleen Howard

“Dangle on!” (34 x 32 inches), 2024 by Kathleen Howard

From Kathleen Howard of Santa Cruz County, California:

I had seen Susan and her wonderful collaged quilts in Houston when she was a featured artist. Her capacity to color with little items of cloth went straight to my coronary heart. In 2019 I purchased myself a birthday current, her Grasp Class Guide. The pandemic hit, and a small, silver lining emerged…the flexibility to take weekly on-line courses from Susan. From these second on, I used to be hooked on material collage.

A number of years in the past I took a photograph of a June Bug hanging on the quarter-inch wire enclosing my rooster coop. Beneath the chickens had been gazing upward, curious and possibly questioning if he would fall inside. (He as a result of, round right here, most feminine June Bugs keep secure inside their sand burrows and the males do extra flying round looking for a mate.) I had many ideas about this June Bug, beginning after which eradicating a number of variations. After I realized that he may be an endangered Mount Hermon June Bug, a local of Santa Cruz County, I assumed I ought to make him extra regal, with robes reflecting his stunning, royal coloring. And in addition to, bugs are sometimes stunning. However I used to be caught. So I took the chance of the “Bugs and Butterflies” class to turn into impressed and work on my June Bug. It isn’t completed, nonetheless filled with pins and among the drawing material nonetheless hooked up, however I’m comfortable along with his progress thus far. I used to be impressed by Susan’s Polar Bear to make use of lace. I bought and dyed lace near his pure colours. I needed to construct a material base in the precise colours to put the lace upon, in order that the white of the drawing material wouldn’t present. I sublimated images of my chickens onto sheer curtain material to attempt to give the impression of them on the bottom under. Third draft forward…


Daybreak Anderson

“Luna Moth”, 2024 by Daybreak Andersen

From Daybreak Andersen of Grafton, NY:

I began this in Susan’s Fascinating Bugs and Butterflies on-line workshop. I believe among the best components of the category was listening to Susan as she labored by choosing every material. Among the finest classes for me was “making an attempt” to just accept that it didn’t must be good the primary time round. I promote on-line and every part I make must be good so this has been a problem for me. I believe I’m getting there although…


Sue Weidenthal

“Cicada Season” (48 x 40 inches), 2024 by Sue Weidenthal

From Sue Weidenthal of Alabama:

It’s a “talent – in– progress”! After watching numerous YouTube movies, and making an attempt some completely different collage methods at residence, I took Susan Carlson’s class in Tucson! I’ve simply watched all of the movies from the “bugs and butterflies” class and am making an attempt this Creepy Crawley (eww). I needed to have her Serendipity guide rebound because it was falling aside from fixed use! Moreover, the Grasp Class, a prerequisite of the collage class in Tucson, has been a godsend. I learn and watch, after which reread and rewatch, and get extra out of the route every time.

This insect got here from Susan’s on-line class. She stored saying “go greater”, and so I did. Eek!

I had determined to do the physique orange, which I noticed would contact on pink and yellow. The farther I received into the physique, the extra it advanced! I don’t see the heavy orange I had envisioned! I’m stopping right here, will glue it down, after which will transfer onto the wings. I intend for them to be blue, with touches of purple and even some inexperienced… And I’m anxious to see what really happens after I begin getting items up there!

Relating to my “a-ha” moments:

There are such a lot of! Initially, I must study to decide to a pallet. I wrestle with limitations as a result of there are such a lot of stunning items of cloth, and I’m having a tough time seeing how they could mix as soon as they’re really on my canvas. I’m doing higher, however I’ve a protracted technique to go! I suppose the essential half is that I lastly notice the significance of committing to this step.


Neil Jackman

“Bugs” (39 x 39 inches), 2024, by Neil Jackman

From Neil Jackman of Maclean, NSW, Australia:

I had completed a few collage quilts then discovered concerning the “Fly on the wall” classes which I completely loved and gained a number of info. I had at all times thought that I actually wanted to begin utilizing colors and patterns from completely different materials and after I discovered that Susan was doing Bugs and Butterflies, I made a decision this may be the perfect alternative to do that.

It was nice with the ability to use the identical sample as we had been watching on the zoom conferences and after seeing what Susan did, it was then nice enjoyable to do that out by myself model. It was a problem to make use of completely different materials that I usually wouldn’t use however determined to go together with a collection of Australian indigenous materials and I’m pleased with how it’s turning out. I additionally thought the wings might need seemed a bit heavy so determined to strive utilizing some lace as within the right-hand wing which definitely helps. Now to complete the wings, put some curiosity into the background after which the ultimate touches.


Our subsequent Thursday Night time providing begins subsequent week with:

Fly on the Wall: Susan Carlson Studio Watch—African Wax-Print Cloth Collage Leopard—Half 2

September 12 & 19, October 10 & 17, 2024—7:00 p.m. Jap Time

Every session will final roughly 1-1/2 hours.
All classes shall be recorded for viewing later in the event you can’t attend a number of.
Worth: $78
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Be a “Fly on the Wall” as I proceed to work on my African wax-print material collage leopard, now named T’swana. I started this material portrait final November, in a earlier Fly on the Wall: Studio Watch collection. Inside these 4 weeks, I completed the primary draft of her facial options, as you see above—and under, in a brief overview of the the primary 4 classes.

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