Print and Collage Class Pics

Last Saturday we taught our Thermofax screen printing class at Artistic Artifacts, this time with a twist to create a collage from the fabrics printed in class.  This was a learning adventure for both us and our students as we endeavored to incorporate a small project into this one day class.  Typically, we teach all we know about screen printing and allow the students to create as much printed fabric as they can in a day's time. But sometimes students are not sure what to do with the fabric once they've created it, so we decided to add an exercise in creating a 12 inch collage from the printed fabrics, incorporating elements and principles of design.  We feel this new version of the class was successful, but may need a few tweaks.  First and foremost, we allowed our students the flexibility to determine if they wanted to work on the collage aspect, or just preferred to create more fabrics to add to their stash.  At any rate, we all had a good time and a positive learning experience!

Student are busy creating a printed fabric stash.

Mel's primary art endeavor is painting on silk with thickened dye.  She chose to add Thermofax printing to some of those pieces.

Michelle works more with paper and journaling than fabric, so she chose to add additional layers to some previously printed papers she brought with her.

Etta is hard at work printing with some of our screens, as well as others she had us create from some of her original drawings.

Here's a print of one of her originals.

Jennifer took the approach of creating a landscape-type effect with the screens she chose to use.

Beth is practicing her technique.

On our demo piece, we added some butterflies to a batik that had some smaller butterflies on it.  Some are done with paint, some with discharge (DeColourant) which takes color out, and some with foil to add sparkle.

Elizabeth shares some color info with Mel and Jennifer.  Come back tomorrow for a look at some of their collages in progress.