Tag: teaching

  • Off to Dallas mañana

    Today is my daughter Nina’s 20th birthday, it is so hard to believe she is now officially out of her teen years. How can that much time have flown by? I am off to Dallas in the morning to give a lecture and teach a couple workshops with the Dallas Quilt guild. I am looking…

  • Off to St. Louis

    Image courtesy of Wikepedia I am packing my bags, let’s hope the kids and dog don’t eat each other while I am gone. I will be giving a lecture Thursday night at 7pm at the St. Louis Artists’ Guild and teaching Mixed Media Painted Fabric and Tsukineko Inks on Saturday and Sunday for MoFA, if…

  • Houston Quilt Festival

    Look what just came in the mail, are you going?I will be teaching two classes this year and you can find them listed in this part of the catalog. Thursday is the Mixed Media Fabric classand each student will get to choose one of these kits to work with.here’s an example of how one student…

  • Painting Whole Cloth Fabric Class at Quilt Festival

    Friday I was thrilled to have a full class of 25 wonderful painting students, what a great class. Everyone worked enthusiastically applying paint to fabric while learning to control the flow of the paint, make smooth gradations of color, work with paint mediums for glazing among many other things.So many beautiful paintings…I would like to…

  • One month until Quilt Festival

    Just a reminder that I will be teaching two classes at the International Quilt Festival Chicago in April. On Thursday April 16th, I am teaching a three hour class on Tsukineko Inks. I will demonstrate two different methods for working with the inks; the dry brush method using the fantastix foam applicators, blending colors on…

  • North Suburban Needle Arts Guild

    This week I gave a lecture and taught two workshops for the North Suburban Needle Arts Guild. What a great guild, there are quilters, doll makers, beaders, knitters, etc., basically all kinds fiber artists. I taught Painting Fabric for Whole Cloth Quilts the first day and using Tsukineko Inks the second day. Because I consider…

  • International Quilt Festival Chicago

    Are you going to quilt festival this spring? I will be teaching two classes at IQF Chicago in April. On Thursday April 16th, I am teaching a three hour class on Tsukineko Inks. I will demonstrate two different methods for working with the inks; the dry brush method using the fantastix foam applicators, blending colors…

  • Have you been making New Years resolutions?

    I am not the best at making resolutions, my usual goal is just to get through the next year in one piece with a conscious effort to live it in gratitude and creativity. That includes making art myself and helping others make art by sharing the skills and techniques that I know. If you want…

  • Riverwalk Quilters Guild

    This week I gave a lecture and taught a workshop making Fiesta Ornaments at the Riverwalk Quilters Guild. The weather was lousy but the spirits were high. A wonderful adventurous group willing to move out of their comfort zone painting and sewing metal.Beautiful ornaments were made by all.

  • New Workshop DVD hot off the press

    My workshop DVD Painting Fabric for Wholecloth Quilts is now for sale at Quilting Arts. This DVD gives information on using textile paints, mixing color, painting demonstrations for glazing, painting smooth gradations, details and more. When you buy the DVD you can also download a copy of this bird illustration that I paint during the…

  • Sign up now for the next online Color Theory Class

    The next Color Theory Class is ready to go, it’s a six week course beginning September 1st. Did you know the color choices you make can transform an average piece of artwork into something spectacular? Be surprised and delighted by the effects and illusions you can create by understanding the mysteries of color. In this…

  • Houses article part 2- construction!

    Hey, the Cloth Paper Scissors issue with the house construction directions is hot off the press. If anyone goes through with making a house, please send me photos, I would love to see what you make.Quilting Arts Workshop DVD’s In other news Quilting Arts has just announced the release of the first 4 workshop DVD’s.…

  • Make It University

    Make It University

    10:30 this morning, just after the show opened, I taught my first class in Make it University on mixed media painted fabric. I condensed a 3 hour class down to one hour, thank goodness there were heat guns available to help dry paint. My fabulous students were troopers keeping up with the fast paced collage…

  • Gathering Supplies

    All week I have been gathering supplies for teaching two MIU classes, Open Studios and one other Quilting Arts event I will be doing at International Quilt Festival that I don’t think I can talk about yet. It is amazing how much time that takes. The hardest part has been estimating how much paint 25…

  • Quilting Arts DVD’s

    While I was in Ohio taping an episode for Quilting Arts TV I filmed two DVD workshops, they will be like watching an hour long instructional video on your computer. This was my view while filming except there were two guys manning the cameras; one for a wide shot and another for close up. Helen…

  • Making art should be beautiful…

    I had an idea a couple weeks ago to create a workshop for making a mixed media art apron to be worn when ever one is being creative and working with messy stuff. Because the whole surface of the apron is covered with paint it is extremely durable and can be wiped clean. I used…