Of course, I had to do Yoga Poses in Public Places, this time with the fabulous Pokey Bolton.
"Nature Journal" by Jane LaFazio
Then I had to go see the Rituals exhibit to see my quilt. Rituals is a really really fabulous exhibition of forty-some quilts. (You can see it at the other International Quilt Festivals this year.)
Text and Textiles workshop
Thursday, I taught Text and Textiles, hand stitched story quilts. Great group of women!
student at work in Text and Textiles
student at work in Text and Textiles
Friday, I taught Intro to Surface Design with another delightful group of women.
This is the fourth of a series of Interviews as Inspiration. I'm inviting people I admire; artists, authors, people I know, and people I don't. It should be fun! and hopefully inspirational for both you and me.
I'm am beyond thrilled to give you my interview with Danny Gregory.I consider Danny my mentor, since I first saw his blog in ~2005, and it was he who inspired me on my sketchbook path. I was lucky to met Danny, just once, on a sketchcrawl in Los Angeles in 2006.
Sketchcrawl 2006!
Then, when he invited me to be in his book "An Ilustrated Life" I was so honored, excited, thrilled and we've continued to stay in touch.
So, grab a cup of your favorite beverage and watch the delightful 20 minute video Danny made in response to my emailed questions. (The video was a complete surprise to me! and what a treat!)
You can see Danny's other videos here, on DannyGregory TV Danny's books and his recommendations: Everyday Matters by Danny Gregory
An Illustrated Life by Danny Gregory (I'm in this one!) Artist Journal Workshop by Cathy Johnson The other book Danny mentions are harder to find: Sketchbook Paris by Ronald Searle, Creative Ink Drawing by Paul Hogarth, Coastline by David Gentleman, A Journey to North Korea by Guy Delisle, and Painting People by Charlotte Mullins.
First, here's how I printed on paper. The plexiglass is my printing 'plate.' (I'm using acrylic paint for this example)
2. Brayer over the tape, using acrylic paint.
3. Remove the tape (it comes off easily, all in one piece!)
4. Place your paper (image side down) on top of the plexi and brayer over the back of the paper to create a print.
5. Lift the paper, and here is the print you'll get
As you can see, the ScotchBlue Painter's Tape served as a mask. In the example below, I created a collage, then printed over it, so that the collage would show through the tree area, masked by the tape.
In this example, I used the technique described above, but on a collaged paper.
I actually heard of this idea, from a student who had created a large tree on the wall of her daughter's bedroom, using ScotchBlue Painter's Tape. Then she'd painted over the wall, removed the tape, and had a wonderful slightly abstract tree on the wall! Imagine~then you could go in and paint leaves and birds and all kinds of things on the wall.
.....and I couldn't stop there! I had to try it on fabric too!
detail of small art quilt, by Jane LaFazio
white cotton fabric with pattern created from a stencil
I created a tree, using ScotchBlue Painter's Tapetearing small pieces, almost like sculpting as I created the tree. I made sure to save the parts of the stencil print that I especially liked, by putting the tape over them to mask them.
tree complete!
Spray with color
Then I sprayed with transparent color.
I could have let it dry
And placed it outside to dry...but I couldn't wait, and pulled the tape off when it was still wet!
But I couldn't wait and peeled the tape of right away!
tadah!
I love it! (Next time, I might have ironed the fabric to a piece of freezer paper, to keep it flat and stationary, then applied the tape, and sprayed it with color.)
I added a piece of batting to the back and did some free-motion stitching around the tree shape
Now, I wanted to make a small quilt with it, by adding a piece of batting to the back and doing some free motion machine stitching with black thread.
