Printing on Fabric with Natural Materials: Sun Printing Online Workshop

Description

Create gorgeous sun prints for your fabrics using easy-to-find materials that are inexpensive, yet create a unique and original design each time. You can then use your completed original fabrics and use them in finished products like quilts and home décor items such as pillows and table runners.

WHAT YOU GET

• Lessons on printing fabric using your own heliographs with masks, salts, and more.
• Tips and tricks on dyeing fabric
• Finished Sun Printed Fabrics and Projects

CLASS OVERVIEW

This online workshop teaches you how to dye fabric using the power of the sun. Use natural materials to design heliographs (or sun prints). 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 the sun that will be sure to stun all who see.

LESSON BREAKDOWN

1.Sun Printing Overview | (11:27)

2. Sun Printing with Masks | (17:45)

3. Sun Printing with Compression | (9:01)

4. Sun Printing with Salt Effects | (6:21)

5. Sun Printing Troubleshooting | (8:04)

6. Sun Printing Finished Projects | (3:23)

SUPPLIES FOR THIS COURSE

• Transparent acrylic inks or transparent acrylic paints
• Solid white or off-white cotton fabric, cut into fat quarters (approx. 18” x 20”), prewashed
• Foam board a little bigger than a fat quarter (20” x 24” is perfect)
• Plastic drop-cloth cut into pieces the size of the foam board
• Plastic deli container cups
• Foam brushes – 1”-3” widths
• Spray mister bottle

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.