On-Line Class: Playing With Paint

A new session of "Playing With Paint" will begin Friday, June 8th at www.QuiltUniversity.com. It's a great on-line class where we learn to play with complete abandon. It's just like being  back in kindergarten - oh - and we'll also be learning the properties and uses of textile paints.

Playing With Paint

will include many wet brush painting techniques, stamp carving, stenciling, and yes - 

playing with your food.

One lesson opens each week for four weeks but I'm on-line for at least five or six - answering any questions and commenting on all the fun work students submit to the class gallery.

During this tough economic time on-line courses are a fantastic alternative to the expenses of traveling to a live workshop. $36.00 for a month of fun is a great value. Oh, and you get to come to class in your pajamas!

SIGN UP NOW! Let's PLAY!

You can see a class description and supply list here: http://quiltuniversity.com/classlist.htm#PlayingWithPaint

Student Spotlight: Playing With Paint

I'd love to share with you some of the wonderful work done by students in my class

Playing With Paint

Stamped by Sarah Stephens

These were from our online session earlier this year at

www.QuiltUniversity.com

Dry brush by Madalene Murphy

Monoprint by Sally Stites

Tiger Eyes by Kathy Edwards

http://kathyeplace.blogspot.com/

wet wash, stamp, shiva oil sticks  by Anne Fornicola

Monoprint by Cheryl Hansen

Student Spotlight: Sally Westcott

I'd like to introduce you to a student I feel I know and love, but whom I've never met face to face. Sally Westcott lives half way across the world from where I live -  but we've had lots of fun together thanks to the wonders of technology and on-line teaching.

Here is some of the lovely, playful experimentation that Sally did while in Playing With Paint at QuiltUniversity.com.

Sally played with Shiva Paint Sticks - rubbings found anywhere and everywhere.

Wet washes with both crayon and salt resists.

Stamp carving and stenciling.

More lovely stencil work.

These techniques will be taught in the on-line class 

Playing With Paint

January 14th, 2011

www. QuiltUniversity.com

I encourage you to pop on over to Sally's blog and say hello.

My favorite things about on-line teaching

These are a few of my favorite things about teaching on-line.

NOT schlepping 180 lbs of supplies on an airplane.  And wondering how I'm going to get everything in the trunk when someone picks me up. And shipping a ton of boxes and hoping they all actually arrive.

Teaching with my feet up on the desk, while wearing my favorite socks! Makes it even better with a lovely view out the window and cup of hot coco in my favorite hand-made mug. I love hand-made mugs.

And most of all - interacting with students from all over the globe!

In my last class I had students from the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland

And students from all over the United States too!!! AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, HI, IL, KY, MA, MD, MI, NC, NH, NJ, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WA, WV were all represented in my last QuiltUniversity.com class.

How cool is that!?

Registration is open for 

Playing With Paint

and

The Artists Toolbox

at QuiltUniversity.com

Put your feet up, brew your favorite cup, and join me for some great  fun!

Student Spotlight: Sally in Tasmania

Don't you just love saying "Tasmania"? I do.

 

Sally has been having fun, fun, fun in my current on-line class. 

I'd love for you to pop over and see some of her work.

On-Line Class: Playing With Paint

There is still plenty of time to register for my upcoming class at QuiltUniversity.com.

Playing With Paint

will include many wet brush painting techniques, stamp carving, stenciling, and yes - 

playing with your food.

Class opens this Friday but registration will be open through next week.

Tutorial: Discharge Printing With Bubble Wrap

Do you love messing around with fabric as much as I do? The instant gratification of painting and discharging fabric is one of my favorite things about textiles as a medium.

 

Next week my on-line class Playing With Paint will be opening at QuiltUniversity.com. Here is a little sneak peak. This discharge technique is just one bonus out of the four jam packed lessons that you get when you sign up for the class. 

On-line classes are different than live classes of course. While you don't get the face time - you do get interaction with me and the other students for a full six weeks. A new lesson opens up each of the first four weeks and then there are a couple of weeks of make-up time in case you don't have time to get around to trying everything. And believe me - you can cram a lot more information into four written and illustrated lessons than you can in one live class. I'll be there in the class forum each day commenting on the pictures posted in the gallery and to answer questions. Hope to see you there!

Student Spotlight and Inner Critics

I love my students. They are why I teach. They inspire me and invigorate me and remind me why I spend so much time ordering supplies and schlepping them around. I've said it before and I'll say it again - you can't pay me enough for all the packing and schlepping. But once the students show up I have to pinch myself because I can't believe I'm getting paid to have this much fun!

LauraLea has taken both of my on-line classes through Quiltuniversity.com and always blows my mind with both her productivity and the beauty of her work. The piece above is a heliographic print. Sun, fabric, ferns, paint - recipe for fun!

LauraLea has used both a torn freezer paper stencil and a meticulously cut plastic stencil for this beauty. She painted it over a spray bottle piece that didn't turn out to her satisfaction. That's one of the things I like so much about surface design. If you don't like what happens the first time you play with the cloth, just do something else to it.

Here is another look at her stencil - a goddess tree. I think the repeated swirls are a stamp she carved.

And finally, some Shiva paint stick rubbings. Aren't they exquisite? Such beautiful textures she found around her home. Way to go LauraLea!

Why don't you all leave a comment and tell her what amazing work she does? Especially because she always seemed to have just a little bit of fear holding her back. She would worry, worry, worry - and then show up with these beauties. I know she's not the only one who has a little inner critic that needs to be shut away in a closet somewhere. She struggled and managed to lock that nasty critter away for a while. Good for her!!!

All of these examples are from Playing With Paint, which begins again next Friday the 19th.

How do you silence your inner critic? How does fear hold you back and how can you overcome it? I'll ramble a bit more about overcoming our fears in the next post. Until then, enjoy these beauties.

Over there - and over here

There is a wonderful little group of artists who maintain a site titled "3 Creative Studios". Sue Bleiweiss, Terri Stegmiller, and Vicki Welsch - three lovely and very talented ladies. Their site is full of free projects, on-line classes, shopping, and a block of the month.

In conjunction with their block of the month for January they are giving away a package that includes my book, hand dyed fabrics, mistyfuse, a hand knit clutch, and art print, and several other textile related goodies. We're talking serious yumminess here people!!!

Pop on over there, put together their block, and enter their challenge!

You have until the 15th.

Over here I'm gearing up to open my next on-line class "Playing With Paint" through Quilt University. Here's a little snippet of what is in store there. This is a clip from my Surface design Sampler Platter DVD. Same technique but we'll get more in depth during the on-line class. That and you have weeks to interact with the other students and I. Class starts Feb 19th although I think you can register for it up through the 24th. There is extra time after all four lessons open to catch up if you need to.

Guest Post - Beth Berman

After seeing the work she did using techniques learned from my Surface Design Sampler Platter DVD workshop, I couldn't wait to introduce you to Beth Berman. She has very kindly written up some wonderful information on new products and the process she used to make this beautiful piece.

BETH:

You may already know about this product but it is new to me. I received a sample of the AVERY NOTE TABS and realized the sturdy stiff repositionable plastic note tabs would make perfect stencil material. I cut this spiral stencil and applied it to this quilt with silver paint. You can wash it and reuse it and it doesn't lose its tacky back. I store them by sticking them to the side of my bookshelf. This one has been used many times and just washed.

The quilt page (9x11) is a solvent transfer of the crow , a la Lyric's Surface Design DVD, then darkened with fabric paint, covered with a dryer sheet printed with a scan of three feathers. I hand carved stamps, thanks you Lyric- from Speedy Carve and used pearl paint. The dryer sheet idea came from Natalya Aiken's DVD, Texture Transformation: Stitch, Alter, Recycle. I LOVE the look of these printed dryer sheets. A tip from me: Buy the precut FLAT freezer sheets she recommends and avoid the printer jam headache.

These are 5 new crow stamps I made after watching Lyric Kinards DVD. One of the topics on "Surface Design Sampler Platter" was carving rubber stamps. She suggested Speedy Carve which is a soft, easy to carve material. I bought large sheets, carved, then cut each stamp out, yes, with scissors, and glued it to a wooden block which I polyed after stamping an image of the stamp onto the top of the wooden block. I now have a shoe box full of custom made stamps. I also tried linoleum blocks. Although much cheaper, they are harder to carve and slipping with the bladed carving tool was a problem for me. As a matter of fact, I've got a huge puncture right now. I'll spend the extra and use speedy carve exclusively.

(A note from Lyric - if you'd like a little extra fun, information, and interaction - my Playing With Paint class begins on February 19th through QuiltUniversity.com. It includes stamp carving as well as a number of other fun things to do with paint, includes four lessons and you have access to me for about 6 weeks. $36 isn't bad for all that!)

Playing With Paint

Hello Friends,

I hope you are enjoying a lovely summer! I'm reaping the rewards (sunburn) of a perfect day at the beach with my kids yesterday.

I wanted to let you know that a new session of "Playing With Paint" will begin next week at www.QuiltUniversity.com. It's a great class where we play with complete abandon as though we were back in kindergarten - learning the properties of textile paints and playing around with many, many techniques. One lesson opens each week for four weeks but I'm on-line for at least five or six - answering any questions and commenting on all the fun work students submit to the class gallery.

During this tough economic time on-line courses are a fantastic alternative to the expenses of traveling to a live workshop. $36.00 for a month of fun is a great value. Oh, and you can come to class in your pajamas too!

You can see a class description and supply list here: http://www.quiltuniversity.com/classlist2.htm#PlayingWithPaint

(and for those of you who are patiently awaiting your prize - I'm mailing out ATC's next Wednesday!)

Playing With Paint

I'm totally excited for an on-line class I'm teaching that starts this week! Playing With Paint is a completely fun, stress-free, technique class where we do exactly that - PLAY! I'm looking forward to settling into my (newly organized and gorgeous) studio for the next four weeks and doing some easy, instant gratification, no pressure fabric painting!

printed with bubble wrap, carved stamps, and sponges

I've been under killer deadlines for the past year and am soooooo ready to just relax. I'm tired of being stressed out. I love to dye fabric, but painting is so much easier and takes so much less planning.

not painted - but it's how I feel!

There is still space available in the class and you can probably find most of the supplies around your house - especially if you've got a few jars of textile paint sitting around that you bought at a show somewhere and haven't gotten around to using yet.

QuiltUniversity.com is such a user-friendly way to take courses. You can see the course description and supply list here. Hope to see some of you there!