Virginia Art and Soul Workshops

Tracie Lyn and Marylin Huskamp
9:00 - 4:30
Monday

3042 - Painted Nature

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$ 135 Plus $15 materials fee

This is a technique class where we will explore ways of capturing nature, and more specifically birds on fabric. Based on the work seen in the 2007 July/August issue of Cloth, Paper, Scissor by artist, Tracie Lyn Huskamp, this workshop combines methods for sketching an image onto fabric, working with and mixing acrylic paints to develop your subject, and capture important details of such delicate creatures, along with examining ways to distress fabric in order to create interesting backgrounds. Using plain muslin, you will learn a fast and easy way of drawing your image onto a fiber surface. (No Drawing Skills Are Required!) This sketch will serve as a guide to aid in bringing your bird to life by using simple acrylic paints. You will also learn how to extract your subject from its fiber support giving you options for placing your painting onto a completely different background. In addition, we will explore unique methods for
distressing fabric to turn a plain background into a work of art. Finally, composing from gathered words and verses a beautiful portrait of nature will emerge that is sentimental and heartfelt.

 Supply List:

• 1 - mechanical pencil with finetip (such as a Pentel 0.5mm P205)
• 1 - white clic eraser
• 1 - #1 and #3 Round Paint Brush (make sure the tip of the brush is pointed)
• 1 - 3/4” or 1” Flat Brush
• 10 - 1” Sponge brushes
• 1 -  2 oz. bottle of white, black, burnt umber, burnt sienna, med. beige, cream, pale purple, olive green, med. foliage green, lt. green, french blue, pale blue, med. yellow, med. orange, and med red acrylic/craft paint (any brand) (NOTE: These paints should be inexpensive normally costing around $1 per bottle or less. Or feel free to use the acrylic paints you already own)
• small pair of sharp scissors
• Goldens Matte Gel and brush for applying Matte Gel
• small ziploc bag of misc lace and trims to use for additional embellishment

Optional Supplies - your favorite acrylic paint colors, decorative stencils and/or foam stamps (florishes,
and damask type designs are the best), stencil brushes, decorative papers, an old book to cut words from and/or your favorite poem or verse.

Materials fee includes:  1/2 yd. of  a special muslin fabric, water cup, paint palettes, brush rag, supplies to use in class for distressing muslin canvas (tea, coffee, misc.inks-acrylic paints-metallic powders)