Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from November, 2016

My Picasso Moment!

I was trying to create a totally different textile print from that shown in the earlier post.  Well, it was a Picasso day with a mood to match, and I created this.  It doesn't particularly work as a textile print (very busy), but it was fun to create!

SJMA - Textile Design Workshop!

I went to a Textile Design workshop yesterday at the San Jose Museum of Art, offered as part of the museum's current exhibition called 'Beauty.  Tessellation and repetitive imagery was the theme of the workshop and is what is really the foundation of making a print design (textile or otherwise).  After the design is finalized, the imagery can be printed via screen-printing or as a Photoshop-edited image sent to a printer for tiling and reproduction. Our schedule for the three-hour workshop included: Task 1:   Look at graphic inspiration from the exhibit; Task 2:   Draw a base image leaving some white space around the outer edges.  My image was a living room with an antique sofa, Art Deco lamp, and modern painting and rug; Task 3:   Cut the base image into quarters and re-arrange them (horizontally and vertically) in which you could add more drawn elements into the rearranged to minimize white space and to create secondary designs; and Task 4:   Using printed copies of th

Another Painted Magnolia Leaf!

Upcoming Class on Textile Design at SJMA!

In conjunction with the exhibition 'Beauty' currently at San Jose's Museum of Art, there is an upcoming workshop on textile design that includes experimentation with composition, repetition and color to create one's own textile pattern.  Cool!  Find out more about the course at the link below (limited to 25 participants). http://sjmusart.org/event/art-101-textile-design

Painted Magnolia Leaves - Life Book 2016

This was a bonus Life Book 2016 project from Faith-Evan Sills that I worked on today!  I found the PERFECT Magnolia leaves for it on a local walk.  They had such beautiful sheen and added to the 'leather' impression of the pink one especially.  This is a great idea and in intended to get students to do a short project daily to keep up their arting practice. This piece was created through a class offered by Tamara Laporte from Willowing Arts Ltd. For more information, visit this  link:  www.willowing.org . This post also linked to  http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com .