I HAVE A THING WITH PLANTS: A Botanical Basis for Art Quilts
Friday 8 September: 9.30am-4pm with Ruth de Vos
Meeting room, Queen Victoria Museum, 2 Invermay Rd, Launceston, Tasmania*
Do you need a fresh boost to your art practice, or are you perhaps just looking to refine your existing focus? Or maybe you just love any opportunity to get your creative juices flowing?
Let’s work through a design process that will have you looking at your artwork (and your neighbourhood flora) with fresh eyes. We will consider the shapes, tones and textures found in plants to inspire several of our own quilt designs. We will work through a bunch of exercises to develop several potential designs using pencil, collage and paint. Use the designs to inform your current work or to launch a whole new body of work. Either way, we’re going to get your ideas and creative juices flowing!
Class Requirements:
- Scissors for paper (and fabric-optional),
- Glue Stick,
- Scraps of fabric and paper in a range of colours and tonal values,
- Needles and a few colours of thread (optional –for students who wish to work with scraps of fabric as well as paper.)
Program:
9.30 am Registration
10.00 am Workshop Commences
10.30 am Morning Tea Provided**
10.45 am Workshop
1.00pm Lunch Provided**
1.45pm Workshop
3.45pm Close of workshop, clear and pack up and leave building by 4.00pm close of Museum
Download: Ruth de Vos Workshop Flyer (PDF – same content as this web page).
*There is ample parking at the Queen Victoria Museum at $3.00 per day
** 2015 Silent Auction proceeds have provided morning tea and lunch for both workshop and conference and a discount on dinner. Thank you for your support.
