Crayons and Prisma Colors on Fabric with Gail Crotty
he artists had so much fun at Gail Crotty's workshop painting fabric with crayons and Prisma pencils at the Indian Rocks Beach Art Center.
April 2015 Newsletter
To the Membership:
My life has
taken so many sudden turns the last month, I find that getting lost in creating
a piece of art is where I find peace and balance. I’m hoping you are all
getting as excited as I am about our show coming up at the Dunedin Fine Art
Center. I’ve seen a few pieces of our members and they are wonderful. Keep in
mind that we will be receiving your art May 3, more below. Dunedin is where we
will see our ideas taken to completion.
Cindie Townley
Note from the editor: Don't forget to check out the photo blog of all our pictures. You can click the photo blog link any time to see them and you don't have to come back through the newsletter. Feel free to tag the photos with more information if you like.
We would like to extend welcome to our new members or a welcome back to returning members including: Krissy Brawner, Maureen Noonan, Sarah Snyder, Bonnie Ward, and Nancy Woodling
This month, we have photos from Show & Tell.
and from the Sewing Expo in Lakeland
and from the Rusty Treasurers March Workshop
Marlene Glickman talks about fun with Colors and Dyes
Whenever I want to mix up my Color Hue dyes (instant setting and so easy to use) I fold a silk scarf in half and then wet it. I lay it on my heavy duty plastic tablecloth with a white plastic one underneath so I can see the true colors. Then I fill my 4 ounce bottles or for a workshop my 22 ounce bottles with tap water and add the liquid dye concentrates using a pipette. To test the strength and tone of the color, I pipette the mixed color onto the silk (if starting with yellow, then I put it either on the ends of the wet scarf or the middle by the neck). I also test the sprayer to make sure it is the tone I want. Because the scarf is wet, the dyes flow up and down the scarf a bit. They are instant setting so they don't go far. Then I mix and test the next color (pumpkin), then Rose, then Magenta, then Eggplant, Blue, Turquoise, Green, Brown and ending in Black (which I prefer at the ends of the scarf rather than the middle. I let the dyes rest on the silk for about 5-10 minutes as it is pretty wet by now. I sop up the extra water with a silk wipe up scarf. If the water is clear under the dyed silk, then the dyes have bonded. The colors have moved into each other where they overlap and I have a Color Wheel scarf. I roll it in a towel and iron it dry to see the intensity of the colors.
With most dyes, you have to be careful to not get mud i.e. yellow and purple as they continue to flow on the fabric until they are dry and then heat set. So if you are using other dyes or paints, don't have your fabric too wet, just damp. I don't have that problem with Color Hue dyes as they are permanent while wet so I can get away with lots of techniques similar to the above one. Next time you want to test your paints or dyes, use a piece of fabric and try it out whether you use wet or dry fabric. Have Fun! www.SilkDyes.com Email: Marlene@123webmagic.com
Angie Knowles writes:
There are about ten people participating in The One Bobbin a Day Challenge. They are working to improve their Free Motion Skills. Please, all participants bring your samples to the April Meeting. Many of the Participants are posting photos on our Facebook Page so go check them out.
April 19 - Gail Crotty - Coloring with Crayons.
This method comes from "Creative Quilts From Your Crayon Box: Melt-N-Blend Meets Fusible Applique by Terri Linn Kygar." This workshop will focus on a different way to create "art" on your quilt or on any fabric by using melted crayons to paint on fabric. Gail uses the method to create "appliques" for placement on quilts, but the finished project could be easily used to adorn a card, book cover, etc. The colors and shading with the Crayola crayons will surprise you as you can create anything you can draw or copy. You will also be surprised by what you use for your "paintbrush" as well as other ways (Pigma Pens, Prismacolor pencils and Faber-Castell Gelatos) to add color and texture to the drawings. Workshop fee will be $15, $10 for the use of facility and a $5 supply fee. A supply list will be available at the March business meeting. The time is has been changed to 12PM- 4PM Her list of required supplies will be provided at the April Meeting.
May 17th - Goatfeathers Studio presents Charm School
This workshop will focus on the making of twelve unique mixed media charms. Each charm is designed to explore a technique or use of material or medium. In addition, the workshop will show how common household items can be turned into fabulous miniature embellishments to be used in the making of unique one-of-a-kind jewelry.
Each participant is asked to bring one odd item from their jewelry box that no longer has a mate such as a single pair of earrings or small pendant. A small trunk show, ahem, jewelry box show will also be presented by Goatfeathers resident fiber artists, Celeste Beck and Merri McKenzie. Cost is $60. The workshop is 10:00AM-2:30 PM. Please pack a lunch or plan to pick up a quick lunch in the area.
Mini-Workshops
Mini-workshops are held as part of our regular meeting. Angie shared the schedule of mini-demos for our future meetings. Thanks for pulling this together, Angie.April-- Marlene Glickman demonstrating foil, dye or funky fiber friends
May-- Kim Sherrod demonstrating free motion portraits on fabric with solvy
June-- annie!
demonstrating fabric beads.
Surface Design Demo Show @ Dunedin Fine Arts Center
Dunedin Fine Art Center has asked the Surface Design Guild to take some time to demonstrate surface design techniques. The public would be invited to come and see
us demonstrating what we do and how we do it.
It will be a free event so make-it and take-it will not be
possible. This is a wonderful
opportunity to communicate with people about what we love to create and how we
create it. We will be signing our
members up at the March meeting. At this
time, the time of the Demo show is to be decided. Talk to Bonnie Bowman to sign up.
Surface Design Guild Member Show @ Dunedin Fine Art Center (DFAC)
May 22 – August 16, 2015
Opening –
Friday, May 22, 7 – 9 PM
The Guild
encourages member’s best 2-D and 3-D work that has not been shown.
DFAC
will:
- Hang show – all work will be hung at their discretion
- Accept 2-D and 3-D work
- Insure the show (see DFAC contract for details)
- Sell our work in the show for a 40% commission.
- Sell our work in their shop also. Talk to Angelea Carpenter, DFAC Gift Shop.
- Work can’t be taken down until show closes
SDG
members will:
- Pay $20.00 entry fee per member for up to 2 pieces of work. Check or cash to SDG, paid only to SDG. DFAC does not charge or accept this payment. SDG will donate entry fees to our Summer Art Scholarships.
- Must sign DFAC contract (follow the link to print from the SDG website)
- Deliver work to DFAC on Sun. May 3, 1 –4pm. No work will be accepted after May 11, 2015.
- Pick up work @ DFAC, TBA.
- Provide ready-to-hang work. They don’t use a hook hanging system.
- Provide label info on their contract. Give credit if you use others patterns
- Send out evites & invitations to your mailing lists
- Come and enjoy the opening
There
will be 4 fiber shows at DFAC at the same time.
Quilt National 13, Florida Quilt Invitational, Illumination: ArtCloth
Network, and our show.
SDG Show Committee - Sarah Butz, Davida Milne, Angelea Carpenter, Aida Sheets, Bonnie Bowman, Dana Maley and Cindie Townley.
SDG Show Committee - Sarah Butz, Davida Milne, Angelea Carpenter, Aida Sheets, Bonnie Bowman, Dana Maley and Cindie Townley.
Call to Artists for Fiber and Wearables for Florida CraftArt
Also, Look for a Call to Artists soon for our Fashion and Fiber show August 28-October 24, 2015 which coincides with St. Pete Fashion Week
KINDRED SPIRITS: Mixed Media Playmates and PuppetsOne-of-a-kind dolls and puppets exhibit opening April 3rd, 2015 through April 31st
FAB Fiber is hosting its first "doll show" featuring
Tampa Bay area artists Patsi Aguero, Susan Andrews, Betsy Cook, Margaret
Fusillier, Beryl Heeren, Lynn Carol Henderson, Jill Oldenski. Elizabeth Neily,
Kathy Pollack, Kathy Rex, Kay "Falling Leaves" Welch and others TBA.
This will be a preview show in anticipation of a much more expansive exhibit
next year.
We've never seen a hand-made doll that didn't engage us.
Dolls have been both trivialized and commodified by commercial production and
marketing. Dolls have always been a very powerful class of artifacts,
created to image what it means to be human. Dolls are about contemporary
fashion, about controlling destiny, fertility, about fantasy play and
storytelling. Dolls are comfort, companions, protectors and allies.
Before there were knives and forks and spoons, there were dolls.
'Kindred Spirits" will feature artistic dolls in all media and all
sizes, with doll defined as “anything which looks back at you.” The
exhibit challenges artists to explore new media, and encourages collaborative
works.
In conjunction with the exhibit, we have formed a
dollmaker/puppetmaker group which will meet on Tuesday evenings at 7 PM at FAB
Fiber. Meet other locals who are interested in dollmaking discuss your doll
art. FREE. (RSVP before you come, as we will not keep shop open if no-one shows
up.) 727-744-7051. Elizabeth Neily
info@fabfibergulfport.com
Tampa based artist to show “Coming to America” series at Ruth Eckerd Hall
April/May 2015
Gasparilla Fine Arts show awards winning Tampa artist and
art historian Susanne Nielsen will be exhibiting five paintings from her “Coming to America”
and “Childhood” series April/May 2015 in
the upstairs galleries of Ruth Eckerd (Performing Arts )Hall in Clearwater,
Florida.
The artist paints her early impressions of coming to America
as a child. With two languages and multiple cultural memories of the 1960s she
presents a mixture of personal family scenes, childhood songs and slogans from
books and magazines. Radio and TV, monochromatic and multicolored, her world
was and remains a multicultural experience that visually communicates on many
levels thememories of a child and the nostalgia of us all.
Nielsen is honored to have been chosen as one of
12 artists to show her work at Clearwater’s Ruth Eckerd Hall April 2015 through
May. She will be pleased to discuss her
work when she visits the Florida Orchestra Masterworks concerts April 19th
and May 3 rd. The works are on view for two months and can be seen
with paid admission to any Ruth Eckerd Hall event during this time. Please contact Susanne Nielsen at
813-254-5088 for further information. You may also visit her arts blog www.susannenielsenarts.blogspot.com
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Purpose of the
Guild
The purpose of
the Guild is to increase community awareness of surface design and its value in
our lives while offering educational and experimental venues, thus supporting
individual artistic creativity while promoting an attitude of mutual respect
and exchange in all areas of surface design.
Membership to the
Surface Design Guild is open to anyone with an interest in surface design of
any variety. All levels of interest and expertise are welcome. If you or
someone you know would like to join please contact surface.design.guild@gmail.com. Bring your registration form to the next
meeting or send a check made out to the Surface Design Guild to:
Surface Design Guild
5905 Suwanee Ave
Tampa , FL 33604
Board & Committee Members 2015
President - Cindie Townley ctownley22@gmail.com 618-407-9223
Vice President/Programs – Dana
Male tedanamale@aol.com
Secretary – Angelea Carpenter acarpenter1@knology.net
Secretary – Angelea Carpenter acarpenter1@knology.net
Treasurer/Membership – Ann Thomas amt1952@earthlink.net
Multi-Media Committee – Newsletter: Sharon Appler - sharon.appler@gmail.com
Web: Bonnie Bowman - surfacedesignguild@gmail.com
Web: Bonnie Bowman - surfacedesignguild@gmail.com
Mini-workshop Committee – Angie Knowles aknowles13@gmail.com
Show Committee - Sarah Butz, Bonnie Bowman, Davida
Milne, Aida Sheets, Brenda Schlechter
MEETINGS
We meet the second Monday of every
month at 6:30PM. Social time is 6PM.
We meet at:
We meet at:
Suncoast Hospice
5771 Roosevelt
Boulevard
Clearwater, FL
33760
We are in Building 10 which is
immediately to the right of the Welcome Center as you face the building.
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