In the event you enroll now, you may nonetheless be part of me in a weekly studio go to as I work on my latest material collage portrait, an African leopard. The second of 4 shows is tonight, and whenever you enroll you’ll obtain a hyperlink to final week’s recording of the primary session to get you caught up.
That is the second sequence of Fly on the Wall: Studio Watch that has featured this leopard. Within the first sequence of 4 shows, I focused on the facial options—eyes, nostril, mouth, and ears. In the event you attended that sequence, you might have the recordings to view everytime you’d like.
Nevertheless, now we have some attendees on this second sequence which have extra just lately found my Fly on the Wall shows and missed that first sequence. I used to be requested final week how I constructed the leopard’s eye. Since that’s exhausting to elucidate from the place I’m at now within the collage course of, right here’s my answer: when you attended beforehand or not, I’ve included the real-time video excerpt under of establishing the leopard’s eye.
Within the remaining three Thursday nights on this sequence I’ll be concentrating on including extra of my luscious material palette of African wax-print batiks—shifting down from the face of the leopard into the neck and shoulders—together with coping with all these intriguing spots and making my “second-draft edit record” for touch-ups, changes, and extra additions.
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The idea of the Fly on the Wall sequence is to permit you perception into my material collage working course of. Over the course of 4 Thursday night time classes, I invite you into my studio as I work dwell and reply your questions as I lower, pin, glue and layer material.
If you’re late signing up or can’t make each assembly, do not forget that every session will probably be recorded for viewing at any time later.
I started this material portrait final November in a earlier Fly on the Wall: Studio Watch sequence. Inside these 4 weeks, I completed the primary draft of her facial options, the very starting and really finish pictures are above. Under, is a brief video over-view of these first 4 classes.
Now I’m able to get again to her—ending her head and progressing into her higher physique—there’s a lot to determine. I’m not precisely positive the way it will all find yourself, that’s the character of how I work, however you will be there to see what I do, hear what I’m pondering, and ask questions as I’m going.
This subsequent Fly on the Wall: Studio Watch Sequence begins at 7pm Jap Time, Thursday, September 12. The next evenings will probably be September 19, October 10 & 17. Please observe the 2 week break within the center.
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Every session will kick off with a brief slide present to deliver you recent with the place the piece is at that second and the way it acquired there. Then with a digicam peering over my shoulder I’ll do an prolonged work session.
I’ve been completely having fun with utilizing the massive, daring, and shade saturated prints from my assortment of African wax-printed materials. Whereas they will pose a problem to make use of in a collage akin to this, these materials are vibrant and thrilling and simply the type of power I hoped to inject into this portrait of a feminine leopard calling for her cubs—based mostly on {a photograph} taken by my cousin’s spouse Tanja Bauer, whereas on safari in Botswana.
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 will probably be recorded for viewing later when you can’t attend a number of.
Worth: $78
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In Half 1 of the African Leopard Fly on the Wall, I started engaged on this portrait—concentrating on African wax-print materials. I waited till the primary session (pictures under) to start the primary draft, so people might see it dwell from the start, trying over my shoulder, as I defined my ideas and collage course of as I went alongside.
Different quilts with related challenges of utilizing large-scale design materials embody: “Dixie Dingo Dreaming“, which used the big scale designs of Australian Aboriginal materials; “Gombessa“, which employed an African “complete material” for the background and Indonesian batiks for the fish, reflecting the house ranges of the coelacanth topic; and the web Comply with-Alongside challenge of my Fantastical Fish eWorkshop (information under).
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Susan Carlson Cloth 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 “bounce factors” to assist discover the knowledge you want.
• Supplies record
• Hyperlinks to useful weblog posts.
• Free fish sample of your selection.
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Susan Carlson Cloth Collage: Sea Turtle eWorkshop
Be taught material collage via a start-to-finish challenge—from sample and material choice via quilting and binding. Every step is clearly written, illustrated with pictures, and additional demonstrated with movies. Be taught the approach with a Sea Turtle then launch into any material collage challenge you would like. Lifetime entry and appropriate for all ranges, together with newcomers. Sea Turtle Sample included
Learn all in regards to the Sea Turtle eWorkshop on this weblog put up: Cloth Collage Sea Turtle eWorkshop Launch.
Cloth Collage On-line Grasp Class
The Susan Carlson Cloth Collage On-line Grasp Class Guide is a multi-media useful resource information to the course of of cloth collage. Utilizing video, pictures, textual content, and hyperlinks to my weblog posts for additional related studying and data, I take you from starting to finish in creating your individual material collage masterpiece, following my tips in a step-by-step format. Lifetime Entry. Appropriate for all ranges, together with newcomers.
Learn all in regards to the course of of making the Grasp Class—clarification of its genesis—the whys and hows Tom and I made among the choices we did on this put up: On-line Grasp Class Now Accessible: Some Reflections.
Facial Options eWorkshop
Designed as a complement to the Cloth Collage On-line Grasp Class, or for many who have a great understanding of the fundamentals of Cloth Collage. Lifetime Entry. Intermediate or superior ranges advised.
The Facial Options eWorkshop accommodates 8 movies and over 8 hours of in-depth instruction for creating every characteristic of a portrait in material. The movies are annotated with “Soar Factors” permitting you to scan ahead and backward to the knowledge you want. Facial options PDF templates are included as reference and primary designs to work together with. Just like the Cloth Collage On-line Grasp Class, membership on this eWorkshop is for all times.
Guide: Serendipity Quilts—Chopping Free Cloth Collage
Full shade all through. 5 initiatives of accelerating complexity, 4 patterns to enlarge are included.
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