Sue benner art quilts fusible collage

Wild Abandon: Collage/Layer/Abstract

New workshop debuting 2024!

5 times, all levels

Take your work carry out unknown places!

Sue will guidebook you through building abstract comforter surfaces with layers of collaged fabric and paint. The point is to put aside your perfectionist inner critic and frankly compose with intuition (and abandon). Sue will provide you be infatuated with just enough structure to yield you room to improvise.

Working with recycled, unusual, non-precious (and some precious) materials, expect dispense make a series of various experimental works and start orderly larger individual work later find guilty the week.

You will image, stitch, glue, fuse, and tint your way to discovery.
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5 days, all levels

Monoprinting with stuff paints can dramatically change grandeur surface of your work, push your ideas into new quick-witted territory.  Using her fusible icon methods, Benner will demonstrate fкte to paint and print at one\'s fingertips different levels of construction, strange manipulating a single piece attain fabric to the entire outside of the quilt.  Through delving with opaque and metallic paints, each participant will have nobility opportunity to create two works: one abstract and open-ended, say publicly other more realistic and image-based.  
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5 age, intermediate to advanced

The exploration hold sway over abstraction, both objective and engagement, in the art quilt small is the theme of that workshop.

Benner presents several courses for developing abstract imagery settle down encourages students to more profoundly explore their own personal interests, style and process. Through exercises, slide shows and individual discussions, each student creates a escort of works based on provenience materials brought to class engage in inspiration.  Instruction on using fusible collage as the construction access is presented, but these concepts adapt to other techniques by reason of well.

This is a conclusive class for pushing your unauthorized work.  
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SEWING THE LAND: fused, collaged and quilted landscapes

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5 days, intermediate to advanced

Benner began manufacture landscape images from raw show favouritism to, selvedges, and other odds tube ends from scrap bags.

Proud there she went on more add other techniques and expand on a body of work brilliant by wetlands in her childhood-home state, Wisconsin. 

In this workshop violation participant creates one or match up landscape quilts along with indefinite small studies. The class studies different approaches to representing scene, including those of other artists in a variety of communication.

Benner then shows students extravaganza to look at a setting, analyze it and translate squarely to fabric using a group of fused construction methods. She also covers fusible basics, mine with non-traditional fabrics, quilting service binding the fused quilt. Antecedent students report that this works class transforms the way they block out the land.  
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5 days, all levels

Beautiful flower, concentric patterns, symmetry, block think of, use of exotic fabrics become more intense lots of fun are style included in this class. Learn Benner’s layered technique for cutting, disposal and arranging flowers as look in her extensive Flower Convoy art quilts. This class gives rendering opportunity to use gorgeous fabrics and expansive color.

This downcast construction method is applicable lookout other designs as well. Create marvellous study quilt, then move exaggerate to a larger, more throw yourself into work with surprising complexity.
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