Yesterday Lisa Fulmer coordinated a 5 hour Introduction to Encaustic Workshop with Patricia (Trish) Baldwin Seggebruch. Trish showed us the basics and some with alternative materials like Transfer Artist Paper (TAP), Lutradur, Pan Pastels, Piñata Inks, PearlEx, Wood Icing, and stencils. She even showed us how to create unusual effects with a blow torch and … More Encaustic Collage
This is an art quilt still in progress made from a collage using text and image I made last month. I liked the collage so much that I decided to make it into a textile piece. I scanned the image at the highest resolution my scanner would allow and printed the images onto fabric with … More Collage Art Quilt
Here’s a photo of a foot that I tried to draw a few times in drawing classes. It is my nemesis, and therefore, a perfect subject for telling a story with collage. I used Photoshop to remove the background stuff and made a gel transfer of the image. I found that it is too low … More Drawing Nemesis
More new collages. For these I created backgrounds with text from various sources – magazines, newspaper, and junk-mail, then added some paint. Over the background, I added images, paint, and more text. In each case, the end result was unexpected and somewhat mysterious. Renewable 6 1/2″ X 7″ Hope 8″ X 7″ My Heart 7″ … More More Text + Image = Collage
Playing with combinations of text and image in Jane Davies’ online workshop Text and Image: Telling Stories in Collage. Class started yesterday, and I’m having fun cutting up some magazines my sister gave me earlier this week. I sat in my easy chair and created a big pile of pictures and text to play with. … More Text + Image = Collage
I just learned that my Yellow Shoes art quilt was selected to be part of the permanent collection of the Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University. As I indicated in an earlier blog post, this little 9″ x 9″ quilt will be part of SAQA‘s 2011-2013 This is a Quilt traveling trunk show. The goal of … More Yellow Shoes selected for Kresge Art Museum
The Stein’s Collect exhibit at the SF MOMA is gone, but not its influence. I saw the show this summer while taking Glenn Hirsch’s painting workshop at UC Berkeley extension. I was excited to see so many of the paintings that I have seen in books over the years. Looking at the SFMOMA website to … More Inspired by Alice’s Chair
This weekend I created a new set of fabric postcards using materials created a while back in a class by Valerie S. Goodwin, an architect and artist whose art is inspired by imagery from maps. In her class, I created a small composition – a street map based on the letter “E”, but never finished it. … More Series-o-matic
My Twig Salad art quilt will be at the Cinema Place Gallery, Hayward California Sept 21 – Nov 12, 2011 Reception Sept 28, 2011 5 -7 pm Gallery Hours: Sunday and Wednesday: Noon – 4 pm Thursday, Friday, Saturday: Noon – 8 pm I’ll be giving a demo of how I make my fabric … More Twig Salad at The QuiltEssential Event
I tuned in to the C&T Wednesday Night Live program few weeks ago where Hilary Frye gave a live demo of how to monoprint fabric using a Gelli Arts – Gel Printing Plate click here for a link to the replay. The process is quite simple and just uses the printing plate, a brayer, textile or acrylic paints … More Gel Monoprint Fabric
Priscilla Read - Art Journey 