Painted Pieced Pictorials with Helen Godden
Helen loves the look of a pieced pictorial combining colours and geometric shapes, interesting angles and a simplified representation of landscape. The difficulty for Helen is that she does not piece…..therefore introducing this NEW 3-day workshop. This class is based on Helen’s AQC challenge entry for 2024 called “The Stars That Guide Me Home”.
Day 1. Bring along a few favourite landscape photos. With Helen’s guidance students will identify the key features and shapes and directional lines to create a simplified landscape representing a potentially “pieced” pattern. The beauty of this design technique, is that we can break the rules of traditional paper piecing as we are not sewing the pieces, we are painting. This will be enlarged ready to trace onto black fabric.
Day 2. Helen will demonstrate her painting techniques with her favourite Lumiere metallic fabric paints. Students will look at blending and mixing techniques to create numerous shades to represent different “pieced fabric”. Students will have a relaxing day painting their design onto black fabric.
Day 3. With loads of demonstrations by Helen, students will enhance their piece with a wide variety of free-motion quilting styles to complement their work. This class will be very exciting as student’s see their OWN designs come to life in full colour and confident complementary quilting – your very own Painted Pieced Pictorial.
3-day Workshop Fee: $495.00 (kit supplies extra – approx $65)
Dates: Friday 26th – Sunday 28th July, 2024
Class Times: 9:30 – 4:30 daily
Listed below are the requirements for the class. Please note; Students will be asked to pay a $10 paint fee to Helen for the use of huge collection of paints throughout class.
$495.00
Class Requirements
- A selection of 3 photos on your Tablet, iPad or phone. Print the images A4 for reference if possible. Printing in black n white is quite ok as we will use them as design reference. You can still reference your photo on your phone for the colours. Images suggestions – seascape, desertscape, ruralscape, cityscape, vineyards, mountains, seaside, boats, villages, sunsets, your garden, underwater, an old building. Any image with interesting shapes and colours that you love. The image could include people or animals but we are not creating their portrait.
- Sewing machine in good working order
- Darning foot or Spring Free Motion Foot!!
- Extension table for your machine if you have one
- Panda Pencil – irons away from black fabric (available in class from Helen for $5 cash)
- Synthetic Taklon style brushes, from 4 to 8mm, variety of square and round (Helen will have brushes to purchase in class)
- Safety pins for sandwiching.
- Water container to wash brush.
- Old cutting mat as a painting surface or plastic
- Pencil, rubber, student ruler, black sharpie (medium not fine)
- Lightbox, if you have one
Venue to provide A4 & A3 blank paper, photocopier capable of A3. Windex, paper towel
Workshop Terms and Conditions
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Booking Terms and Conditions – It will be assumed that you have read these conditions upon booking.
By booking a place in either a workshop or lecture you agree to abide by following terms and conditions.
To secure your place payment must be made in full. Your place is not secured until payment has been received. You can book either online, over the phone or in person with cash or credit card. Refunds will not be issued should you cancel or not attend the workshop. A store credit MAY be issued if we can fill your place. Handcrafters House does not accept responsibility for changes in the personal circumstances of its students. Mobile phones are allowed in the classroom but only when turned to silent or vibrate. No guests or children may accompany students in the classroom at any time. We reserve the right to change these conditions at any time without notice.
