Ghost Layers and Color Washes
Students will learn how to take an image
from a photograph, or a traditional pattern, and add a ghost
layer, or floating design, that is complementary or in opposition
to the first layer. They will then wash this base with
colors to create an in-depth and illusionary design. You'll find
examples of Pasquini's technique transformed into beautiful
quilts in her own books, in Visions, in Quilters Newsletter,
March 1998 issue in the first quilts and new quilt section and a
four-page article in AQS magazine Spring 1999.
On the first day we will create a small
sample quilt, and the second and third days will be devoted to a
more ambitious masterpiece of your choosing.
Supply list:
Instructor will supply paper products needed
(materials fee of $11).
Inexpensive brushes: 1/2", 2", 3".
Foam brushes from art supply or hardware store work.
container of water
3 small tubes of watercolor paint (choose 3
of: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple)
3 matching colored pencils
pencils for drawing and for marketing on
fabric
ruler
compass
scissors for both fabric and paper
tape
wash cloth
iron and ironing surface
spray starch
standard stapler that opens up flat, and a
supply of staples
batting if you wish to quilt your project
a simple photograph or drawing of your own
sewing machine with supplies
darning foot
transparent and neutral threads
Fabrics list:
Sorting the fabrics for use in the
workshop is the most time-consuming process. Pasquini asks
that you bring them to the workshop sorted as described below,
and she will help to fine-tune the colors in class. If
participants wish, we could hold an afternoon gathering a few
days before the workshop in which you would sort, and possibly
trade, fabrics so that everyone comes with a full selection to
work with.
Fabrics in the colors you want to use,
three of them should match the three colors of watercolor paints
you choose. Sort your fabrics into seven values (purchase
or trade for the values you don't have.) Make seven
separate piles of fabric for each of the colors you select: the
first pile will be white and very pale shades of the color, the
fabrics in the second pile will be a little darker, and so on to
the seventh pile which will be black and very dark shades of the
colors you have selected. Try to have several pieces in
each of the steps for each of the different colors you choose to
work with, a good minimum is three fabrics in each of the seven
steps in each of the colors, or 21 different fabrics for each
color. The more fabrics you have to choose from, the easier
it will be. You do not need very much of anyone fabric --
fat eights to thirds of a yard will be sufficient. Do keep
your sorted fabrics separates by bringing them to the workshop in
separate boxes, or ziplock bags.
Lecture:
Painting
with Cloth illustrates Katie Pasquini Masopust's development
from early paintings through traditional quilts up to her current
contemporary wall quilts. She will show early traditional
quilts, Mandalas, Three dimensional quilts, Isometric quilt,
Fractured Landscape quilts and her Ghost layer & Color Washes
works. The lecture includes her inspirations, funny
stories, mistakes and foul-ups, plus design techniques. Katie
will conclude with questions and answers.
Class fee is $175,
plus an $11 supplies fee paid directly to the instructor.
maximum number of students: 20