Intuitive and Spontaneous Improv Curves and Circles

Priscilla explains: “Over time my artistic work has evolved and so has this workshop. More freedom, more abstraction, more improv, much more play!”

This workshop introduces students to elements and principles of design, and explores a variety of ways to create curves, waves, and circles. All these art quilting techniques will enrich the students’ repertoire, and provide the flexibility an artist needs to create original, innovative work. Students will be encouraged to experiment and stretch out of their comfort zones in order to express themselves in their own way. The kit of assorted hand-woven Guatemalan textiles (provided in class), is the basis to create a strikingly attractive design with colour, movement, texture, rhythm, and ethnic flair!

Students will learn hands-on:

To plan their design from scratch and draw a master pattern if they feel they need for control; or to work without a plan if they dare to improv;

• How colour & fabric choices determine the mood of the design;
• How to reflect your own personality into your work of art;
• To use liberating improv techniques like free-form rotary cutting, ‘stack-cut-shuffle-sew’, ‘flip & sew’, simple paper piecing, appliqué by machine, sewing soft curves without pins, among others.
• To mix-and-match hand-woven, hand-dyed textiles with commercial cottons, to create a one-of-a-kind look, that can be ethnic or contemporary!
• Design principles like Colour, Shape, Balance, Movement and Unity will be discussed.

Skill level: all levels

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