‘CREATIVE COLOURING TECHNIQUES’ 2 or 3 day Workshop

Level; beginner to advanced

This one to three day class is designed especially for quilters who wish to ‘personalise’ fabrics and create unique, ‘one off’ materials. Learn about some of the tricks of the trade used by prize winning quilters to create realism in their quilts. Use art techniques on your quilts. Create detailed fabric for features like faces, hair, feathers, leaves, petals, shadows and textures. Learn how to include text on a quilt. Hand colour fabrics for backgrounds like landscapes, skies and water or border fabrics or create feature fabrics and themed fabrics for special quilts. These simple techniques will open your imagination to lots of possibilities. This is not a dye workshop. We will explore fabric inks, paints, textas and crayons. Techniques demonstrated include tonal shading, colour embellishment, watercolour and wash colouring, solar printing, stencilling and stamping fabrics for your individual quilts.
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Day 1 ‘Carefree Colour’

Intro to painting with colours using a primary palette. Solar painting / printing, , backgrounds; sunsets, landscapes, leaves and flowers and fabrics for specific projects.

Day 2 ‘Fine Focus’

Colour mixing using secondary colours; Adding dimension, realism, shadows and detail to birds and animals, with choice of sample size projects. Using pens, texas and crayons also demonstrated.

Day 3 ‘Fabulous Fabrics’

Developing special effects and unique fabrics for projects. Students explore own expression with the opportunity to use tertiary and metallic palette.

Materials fee $35 /day. A set of paints [5 colours] are required for each class.
Please pay on the day. (Pebeo Brand paints.)

Zig fabric pens also available for purchase

 

Requirements list forwarded on request.