Description
Here is your excuse to take a wonderful hike or search your backyard for an assortment of interesting leaves. Get the kids involved and make a day out of it! Look for leaves with interesting shapes but don’t overlook the importance of the vanes on the leaves. Create unique fabric from leaves you’ve collected!
WHAT YOU GET
- Lessons on printing fabric using an assortment of interesting leaves
- Tips and tricks on dyeing fabric
- Finished printed fabrics and projects using leaves
CLASS OVERVIEW
This online workshop teaches you how to dye fabric using leaves. Jane Davila will walk you through each step of the dyeing process and answer any questions you may have. Use your finished dyed fabric in your quilting projects and have fun with your quilting art!
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This workshop is designed for the advanced beginner who would like to learn how to use natural materials to print on fabric. Art quilts is one of the top trending topics in quilting and this workshop will guide you through creating unique fabric using an assortment of interesting leaves that will be sure to stun all who see.
LESSON BREAKDOWN
1. Direct Printing Leaves Overview | (4:34)
2. Direct Printing Preparing the Leaves | (5:04)
3. Direct Printing Leaves Variation | (5:47)
4. Direct Printing Leaves Troubleshooting | (5:36)
5. Direct Printing Leaves Finished Projects | (2:36)
SUPPLIES FOR THIS COURSE
- Transparent or opaque acrylic paints
- Assortment of printed and solid fabrics, prewashed
- Old phone book
- White tissue paper cut into pieces about 8” – 10” in size
- Plastic or palette paper to protect your work surface
- Foam brushes – 1”-3” widths
- Paintbrushes – an assortment of small sizes (½”- 1½”)
- Leaves (look for leaves with interesting edges and veins, large or small)
MEET THE INSTRUCTOR
Jane Davila is a fiber and mixed-media artist who began her professional art career as a printmaker, specializing in etchings and intaglios. Her prints can be found in many private and corporate collections around the world, including the Lila Acheson Wallace Collection. She switched to fiber, mixed media, and art quilting in the 1990s but still incorporates many printmaking techniques, such as screen printing, block printing, gyotaku, and thermofax printing, in her work. She teaches art quilting and surface design workshops extensively across the US as well as internationally, most recently in South Korea, Canada, and Australia.
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