Posted in fibre art, mixed media, quilting, tagged book, calligraphy, fibre art, Houston, International Quilt Festival, lettering, mixed media, technique on Monday August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On Friday, the two art books I ordered from Indigo arrived in the mail (really fast!). They both look great.
Book number one is called Fabric Art Workshop, by Susan Stein. It features chapters on many different fabric art techniques, including Paintstiks, foiling, Angelina fibre, rust dyeing, marbling, and many others. In fact, there are 27 [...]
Posted in mixed media, tagged class, collage, doodle, Houston, International Quilt Festival, lettering, mixed media, stamps on Monday March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is the third entry about the classes I took at the Houston International Quilt Festival when I was there last October. The point of this exercise was mostly to remind myself of what I learned there, and of the ideas I had for new projects and experiments to try when I got home. What [...]
Posted in fibre art, mixed media, tagged art, calligraphy, class, Houston, International Quilt Festival, lettering, mixed media on Sunday March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The second class I took at the Houston International Quilt Festival was called Lettering on Fabric, from Formal to Funky, by Lisa Engelbrecht. Lisa is an artist who works in mixed media and collage.
We started the class by learning some basic calligraphy, using pen and ink on paper. We practiced basic pen strokes, then moved [...]
The Future is a Trilogy; The Past is a Series
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