Realistic Fabric Portraits - March 12, 2010

Realistic Fabric Portraits is perfect for quilters who think they cannot draw.  Start with a photograph and you, too, will be accepting compliments for your skills.  Award-winning artist and quilter, Marilyn Belford, will guide you step-by-step through the techniques that enable you to produce realistic fabric portraits of loved ones.  In this class, you will learn how to use the computer to adjust photos, appliqué by fusing, deal with the features on a face and use thread painting for the finishing touches.  Good basic sewing skills are necessary in this machine class.  Five Lessons.  Extra week after Lesson Four.  See Supply List and Gallery for previous student work.
$46      Class starts Sept 25

Lesson One opens on Sept 25; Lesson Two, Oct 2; Lesson Three, Oct 9; Lesson Four, Oct 16 ; and Lesson Five on Oct 30.  Once a lesson opens, it remains available until this classroom closes on Nov 21

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REGISTRATION BEGINS ONE MONTH PRIOR TO OPENING DATE

_Some Portraits by Students

 

   Ferret                    Jan Read              Jan Pitcairn

   

 Libby Mire Imre      Marilyn Smith         Jeanne Gray

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Art for Quilters - February 26, 2010

Open up your horizons.  Marilyn Belford shows you how to bring the basic tools of an artist to the world of fabric.  From a still life to a landscape, she explains how to get exciting results by applying the artist’s methods and composition tools to your quilting.  Learn how you can create quilts of emotion and depth.  This course will give you a new perspective that will change how you approach your quilting projects.  Simple exercises will let you practice what you learn without a major project commitment.  All levels.  Four Lessons.  See Supply List.   Class starts March 27.  Registration begins one month prior to opening date.

$36. 

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_Some Work by Students

   
Brigitte Otto                    Regina

Terri Aske 

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ARTISTS REVISITED.  [January 29, 2010]  Marilyn Belford.  Filter famous works of art through your mind’s eye and your fabric stash to create anything from Gotta Be Gauguin to DayGlo Degas. (5 lessons) $46

Have you always wanted to see a Rembrandt or a Cezanne hanging on your living room wall?  Now you can.  Learn how to translate a work of art by your favorite artist into a fabulous fabric wallhanging.  Marilyn will guide you, step by step, from selecting the artwork, choosing and applying the fabric through free-motion embroidery and quilting right up to hanging the finished art quilt on the wall.  No paints are used.  Her methods employ only fabric and threads to recreate the artistry of the tableau of your choice.  Class includes a choice of three  patterns of famous art works or instructions for finding copyright-free pictures of other art.  Five Lessons.  Sewing level: intermediate to advanced.  No special drawing skills are necessary.  The illustration is Marilyn’s interpretation of a Georgia O’Keefe painting.  There will be an extra week between Lessons Two and Three, and two weeks extra after lesson 5

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Former Students’ Work

       

Frida Kahlo by Brigitte Otto       Rackham by Janet Coshow

Franz Marc’s The Monkey by Karen Ashermann

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