I recently took a Nicki FitzGerald’s online class Creative Pet Portraiture with Procreate and had a blast making digital collage portraits of my friends’ dogs. I’ve used Procreate to make collages before, but this class took it to a new level. I took more photos of text and textures and organized them into folders on … More Dog Collage Portraits
Over the past 12 months I participated in a group of women committed to creating art in a 12′ x 12″ format and making at least 8 – 12 pieces during that time period. We met monthly at the Textile Dream Studio in Berkeley. We’re showing our work at Bay Quilts in Richmond from Dec … More Twelve x Twelve Challenge
In Pamela Lanza’s Experimental Drawing class at UC Berkeley Extension, I started a series of charcoal drawings of American women I thought should be considered for the newly designed 20 dollar bill. Everyone in class was excited this became a big topic in the news while I was working on my series, culminating with … More Women on the Twenty
In our most recent session of collage making with Michelle Wilson at UC Berkeley Extension, we learned to make a simple accordion book to use as a substrate for a collage. I decided to combine collage and paint across the entire eight span of pages. My goals were to explore using images as texture and … More Why Collage?
I’m taking a collage class at UC Berkeley Extension with papermaker, printmaker, book and installation artist Michelle Wilson. We’re about 6 weeks into the class and have explored various techniques and media for creating collages with found imagery. One of my favorite assignments in the class so far was to create a piece of mail … More Mail Art Project
In October I attended a two day workshop with Kerr Grabowski learning her deconstructed silk screen printing techniques. Her methods include creating designs and textures on fabric using thickened fiber reactive dyes, then printing the designs onto fabric. I created a good “stash” of fabric during the two days and some more when I got … More Deconstructed
ORIGINS, a group show featuring 6 Post Baccalaureate Certificate candidates at UC Berkeley Extension will be on view from 8/6 through 8/25 in the upstairs gallery area. Artists Reception Aug 19, 8 – 9:30 pm. Views of the show Left to Right: Andrew Somera, Tito Vandermeyden, Meghana Deodhar Meghana Deodhar Left to right: Sumiko Shimada, Priscilla Read, Andrew Somera Priscilla … More Origins
Bones I and Bones II – each ~ 10 1/2″ x 27 3/4″ Continuing with my circle series, I patched together fabric monoprinted with my circle motif, then added hand stitched running stitches around some of the circles and vertical lines of machine stitching. After looking at the composition I decided to print onto fabric … More Bones in a Circle
First Do No Harm – 40 1/2″ x 40 1/2″ I’ve continued on my series, but haven’t posted in a while, so here’s an update on my work in the Working in Series class at UC Berkeley Extension, Fall quarter. Life Wheel – 37 1/2″ x 44″ I continued making pieces from the previous quarter … More Working in a Series … to be continued …
In the Working in Series class this quarter, I had several pieces in progress at once. One of my pieces began with a UFO (quilting term for UnFinished Object) that I found in my fabric stash. The UFO consisted of a number of randomly shaped blocks pieced together several years ago that didn’t seem to lead anywhere … More Endangered
Priscilla Read - Art Journey 