If you have already registered for Denise’s Painting Landscapes on Fabric (Sunday 13 July), you will already have some of the Materials Kit, and you will be reimbursed $13. 

 

What to expect 

An experimental fun day! Bring along your childlike enthusiasm.  

 

Sometimes the best designs are created from such very easy methods. Denise will show you tips, which can be the key to creating successful one-off overall designs. Learn Denise’s methods: how to create a colour palette, how to overlap shapes and sizes.  

 

Morning session: Working on approximate A4 and larger size pieces of fabric, learn several of Denise’s techniques with sponge roller and household items. 

 

Afternoon session:  Painting with brushes and printing, using cut sections of plants, such as the sliced stalk off a banana tree.  Combine this with the various other methods learnt to create your own design on a large piece of cloth—something that is uniquely you.  

 

Take home your own personal piece of cloth to make an oversized shirt, pants, a table runner, tablecloth, serviettes, carry bag, cushion—the possibilities are endless! 

 

About your tutor 

Denise is a Fabric Designer for FreeSpirit Fabrics USA.  Her designs are Large Scale, Colourful and Organic and sold in boutique fabric stores worldwide.  Inspired by nature and her travels solo in her Motorhome around Australia, Denise lives in Ridgewood, Sunshine Coast, Qld.  

 

Denise says “Art was all I ever wanted to do!” She studied Commercial Illustration at the Queensland College of Art and later finished a Visual Arts course majoring in textile printing.  

 

She has a love of painting especially on fabric and she intuitively paints directly onto cotton.   She rarely plans her intentions on paper—being spontaneous and intuitive—it’s usually an idea from her natural surrounds that presents a mark or image in her mind. She says, “When my creativity arises, I can’t start quick enough. One idea leads to another and then another, creating marks and colour combinations becomes additive and completely absorbing.” 

I often use found objects to paint with.  Being a creative, curious, and intuitive being, my creativity is abundant when I can immerse my soul in untouched natural surroundings. 

 

What will I need to bring? 

Morning tea and lunch are included in your fee! 

A Materials kit valued at $56 is included in your registration fee and provided at the workshop.  Kit includes: 

• Water-based paints (value $26)—to share in class time. 

• Equipment (value $13): Sponge roller, basic paint brush set, and smooth palette—students to keep. 

• Fabric (value $17)—2 ½ metre length (per person) of 100% quilters cotton.  Prior to workshop, fabric will have been prewashed (to remove sizing), ironed, and cut into a one metre length and the remainder cut into four fat quarters. 

If you register for both of Denise’s workshops, you will not need a second set of the Equipment (value $13).  You will be refunded that $13 by Winter School after you have registered for Denise’s second workshop. 

 

Other items to bring: 

• Bring along your excitement and enthusiasm! 

• Apron or any old shirt to protect clothes from water-based paint. 

• Study water container (wide-based yogurt container is ideal). 

• Any additional paint brushes, any sizes, if you have already. 

• 3-8 plastic or metal spoons any size. 

• 2-4 empty toilet roll spiels. 

• Paper towel. 

• Plastic spray bottle. 

• Masking tape, any width. 

• Basic paper scissors. 

• Hairdryer (if you can fit it in) to help dry fabric. 

• A fold-up drying apparatus and pegs (if you have one and live nearby). 

• Plastic bags, old towels (for car seat protection to take damp fabrics away. 

• Gloves (optional). 

• Denise will provide banana stalks for printing, enough to share.