We had a wonderful time with Laura Cater-Woods at the Annex this past weekend. The workshop was 3 full days- we began on Friday with color exercises and ended up the day making bits for our work. Over the 3 days many continued to make “bits” and a few of us did get some sewing into the mix. Dianne and Jen loved the gel printing, And I mean LOVED the gel printing!! They both created wonderful fabrics. the challenge was to make transparent fabrics….
Here are some photos:
These are color chips and Laura would toss out a challenge and in teams we had to create the answer.
I switched my digital camera to black and white and took the 2 photo’s …. really I was cheating…..
Fabric Samples created by Meghan.
Many Demos occured over the 3 days, here is Laura using foil. I do believe that everything looks better with a sprinkle of foil.
Here I am sewing. Jen had brought a bag to share, and a vintage scarf and flower hair barette was all I needed to get jump started. I created sheer collage fabrics, mounted on regular fast2fuse in 4 panels and will hang them in the window using knitting needles.
It was so wonderful to be sewing!!
Sunday we continued to work. We had to force ourselves to stop at the end of the day to share.
The first to share was Jen. Jen never moved from the gel printing station. I can’t wait to see what she creates with her new fabrics!
Dianne was the other one who did not want to give up the gel printing station-she also created wonderful printed fabrics.
Elizabeth went for the transparent fabrics, a wonderful combination of techniques. Check Elizabeth’s blog to follow her creation.
Susan was expanding a work in process, this gel print has some paper solvy on it and created wonderful crevices.
Tama came to us from NC and a great addition to the group. This was a piece of fabric that had been painted on trays and picked up the impression. Tama had several panels, with windows and hand sewing – I missed that photo.
Jan had some fun with transparent fabrics and learned some more about her sewing machine!! very happy girl!
Meghan completed several panels with gel printed and transparent fabrics.
And Laura went home with purple shoes.. so even the instructors have some fun!!
I have said this before, but it is important enough to repeat. Taking a workshop with Laura Cater-Woods will expand you as and artist- it is well worth the time and money- check out her website for future workshop dates and locations and treat yourself!!
Of course please check out Artistic Artifacts for future workshops and products to use in your mixed media art.
