Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Material Collage Feathered Buddies


Birds! Whether or not your unusual yard (or barnyard) guests or tropical runway fashions—all of them make nice topics for material collage. Right this moment’s Throwback Thursday exhibits a number of examples of how my college students have tackled their feathered topics—comparable to Jane Munsell’s, “Mr M.” (above).

Birds current an attention-grabbing problem. How does one create feathers in cloth? One might reduce out every particular person pinion from a feathery and even leafy cloth. I don’t counsel this! If it sounds tedious to you, I’m proper there with you. As an alternative I encourage my college students to work in “clumps” of feathers, normally making up an space of comparable worth or texture.

This Saturday in your common submit, you’ll see 4 extra examples of material collage birds, so research the birds on this submit and see how they evaluate to those coming this weekend.


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Susan Carlson Material Collage: Sea Turtle eWorkshop

Study cloth collage by way of a start-to-finish challenge—from sample and cloth choice by way of quilting and binding. Every step is clearly written, illustrated with pictures, and additional demonstrated with movies. Study the approach with a Sea Turtle then launch into any cloth collage challenge you want. Lifetime entry and appropriate for all ranges, together with newcomers. Sea Turtle Sample included

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The Susan Carlson Material Collage On-line Grasp Class Guide is a multi-media useful resource information to the course of of material collage. Utilizing video, pictures, textual content, and hyperlinks to my weblog posts for additional related studying and knowledge, I take you from starting to finish in creating your individual cloth collage masterpiece, following my tips in a step-by-step format. Lifetime Entry. Appropriate for all ranges, together with newcomers.

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