In final week’s Half 1 submit I launched you to 4 of my most up-to-date Dwell On-line Cloth Collage college students from the “class that wouldn’t be divided.” They had been studying a lot by hanging out collectively that they’d little interest in being divided into Zoom breakout rooms.
Every class appears to develop its personal character and this one was so very supportive of one another—although that’s what tends to occur in most lessons—fairly pretty for me as an teacher. Such a terrific group has turn into “collaged” collectively. I thank all of you on the market for the useful and productive vitality you’ve shared—and proceed sharing.
Above, is the (very massive) “blue morpho swallowtail” that Ros Petitt started in an earlier on-line class being auditioned on considered one of its doable backgrounds. And under, is the category as a complete. Thanks for the week, girls, you had been all so very fulfilling to work with.
Since I nonetheless want to interrupt up this October class into two weblog posts, I’ll proceed to “stroll” across the classroom within the course I took on-line to view, annotate, and provides common suggestions. Every individual despatched Tom photographs of their works-in-progress, which he then arrange in albums—chronological order by first identify. Within the cloth collages you see under, you’ll be launched to; Marcia Kraus, Pam Shaw, Ros Pettit, and Terri Drimel—who picked up their scissors and glue and continued to remain targeted and work arduous on their cloth collage topics all through our 5-day workweek. I’m very pleased with the way you pushed by way of all these cloth collage partitions that popped up.
Beneath you’ll meet them and their art work, their tales and feedback, and their show-and-share alternatives of quilts that they talked about throughout our mid-week after-class get-together.
Get pleasure from at present’s tour and be sure you take a look at last week’s Half 1 submit, the place you possibly can meet Ann Wilbur, Catherine Lane, Donna Prepare dinner, Liz Chronister, and their menagerie of colourful creatures.
As all the time, click on on any smaller picture to view bigger and to scroll by way of that individual gallery.
A reminder that each one my 2025 cloth collage lessons—each in-person and on-line—are scheduled and open for registration. Click on the 2025 hyperlink under for extra data, together with dates, charges, and descriptions.
2025 Dwell On-line and In-Individual Cloth Collage Lessons
Marcia Kraus
Marcia Kraus is from Harmony, North Carolina, and arrange a short lived workspace in her daughter’s outdated bed room—a number of of us commented what a pleasant shade background it made for our on-line visits! The partitions have the identical form of heat that Marcia stated she wished to deliver out in Lily. She selected autumn leaves and colours to work with and began utilizing the curves and patterns present in her materials to fantastically interpret the contours she noticed in Lily’s face. After class ended, Marcia despatched us the picture with each eyes in place—her Lily is coming to life.
From Marcia:
I selected this animal due to her coloring and thought she can be enjoyable to do. I personally have no idea this animal in any respect so I made her feminine [named her “Lily”] and with Susan’s assist made her what I wished her to be.
The category was superb! I’ve to confess I used to be terrified to even do an internet Zoom class however I made it although simply high quality, because of Susan and Tom. Susan was very beneficiant in giving us all any data, questions we requested, exhibiting us what to search for when selecting cloth, any data we would have liked it was equipped.
We established a routine of Susan going from individual to individual to debate their mission how we might make it higher, what colours would assist to make that occur. It was all value spending the cash to attend an internet Zoom class with a artistic teacher who cares about what you might be doing together with your creativity. I might do all of it once more in a heartbeat!
Pam Shaw
Pam Shaw of Laguna Woods, California, has so many nice recollections of her childhood buddy, Quirky. She shared them with us in school and now, under, with you. I cherished that for a portrait of Quirky, she selected brightly coloured and massive patterned materials—quirky, you would say? He’s gonna be superior, his nostril already is. I all the time counsel that individuals go massive on their collages, however one factor that was arduous to appreciate on-line, is precisely how massive Pam went. I heard gasps from the category once they noticed this picture of Pam and Quirky—massive recollections, massive portrait.
From Pam:
My collage is a portrait of our childhood household pet, Quirky. He was a Boston Terrier and an exquisite canine for youngsters. The 4 of us siblings examined his endurance each day. He had such a unusual character. If he was aggravated with us, he would growl. All of us knew he would by no means transcend a growl and we took nice sport in teasing him to get lengthy growl. It appeared like he was an on/off change. As children all of us thought it was hilarious. If you happen to poked him he would growl till you took your finger away.He by no means actually minded what was happening and was most glad being across the household. Every time he was round different canines he was all the time up for a struggle so he was just about confined to our home and yard.
I had two sisters and we loved dressing him up in our doll garments and sticking him in a doll stroller. There have been a number of occasions when he would have an “accident” whereas sporting our doll garments after which we had been those within the canine home. Our dad had tied a thick rope onto a department of one of many bushes in our again yard. Quirky would soar up and fix his enamel to the knot and shake it viciously whereas his ft had been off the bottom. So long as somebody stood and watched him, he would proceed growling and shaking on the top of the rope.
On the finish of Quirky’s life my older brother was drafted and despatched to Vietnam. Every time we heard from our brother he would all the time say that he hoped Corky would nonetheless be alive when he returned. He was eighteen years outdated when my brother got here dwelling and was in a position to see him once more.
Pam Shaw Present and Share
Ros Pettit
Ros Pettit lives in Ellicott Metropolis, Maryland, not too removed from the place I grew up, so she appears kinda like a neighbor. I’ve labored together with her each in-person and on-line—really, she attended our first ever 5-day on-line class—the place she first started her grand butterfly. Understanding that it was time for this piece to be completed (although she has accomplished and started different initiatives since), Ros wished to not solely work on the background, however to play with these third draft additions of tulle, netting, and different translucent materials, as you see draped over the butterfly, above.
From Ros:
The story of the butterfly is curiously a reasonably benign one. I wished a lot to create my candy canine in various colours. Correctly, Susan recommended that I ought to make a “easier/not as necessary” mission first. It took many renditions of my first mission to get to a close to completion with this mission, however I’ve discovered SO MUCH that I’m grateful to have caught with it!
Ros Pettit Present and Share
Terri Drimel
Terri Drimel joined us from Heart Metropolis, Minnesota. It was so good to fulfill her face-to-face since Terri’s identify has turn into so acquainted—she’s joined us on-line on many different events together with our 2024 four-week February Fish and summertime Bug and Butterfly Work-Alongs (that by the way in which, we’re bringing again for 2025). Terri despatched us the outcomes of these lessons to share together with her classmates in her show-and-share, under. The creative exuberance that may be seen in her fish and butterfly got here out on this loving portrait of Molly—the place Terri has already given Molly her glowing eyes and the start of her joyful expression.
From Terri:
My topic is our beloved Australian Shepherd, Molly, who handed away very unexpectedly in 2023. She was 13 years outdated, spent her life with us on our little interest farm, cherished to journey and camp out and was loopy concerning the Minnesota snow. She was a excessive vitality and really beloved and dependable member of the family.
I had an “aha” second as I struggled with the attention. I watched the preparatory video a number of occasions concerning the eye. I nonetheless struggled with how you can decide what materials to make use of after which HOW to make use of the materials to make up every little thing that goes into the attention and the encompassing bony construction, lashes, fur, and so forth. I lastly found out how to have a look at the attention by way of values and discover these values in my materials. It’s arduous to clarify however I used to be in a position to determine a approach to open my understanding of what I wanted to do.
