Creating Faces with Fused Fabric

Creating Faces with Fused Fabric

Instructor: Sara Quattlebaum

Day/Date (Previous):  Saturday

Time (Previous): 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Length (Previous):

• 6 Hours
• With 1/2 hour lunch – Bring bag lunch

Class Fee (Previous):

• $80 OCAF Members
• $130 Non-members

Materials Fee (Previous): Included with tuition ($15)

Ages (Previous): 10+ (Children under the age of 16 must have an adult attending with them)

Level (Previous): All

Location: OCAF’s School Street Studios building / Lower classroom

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Workshop Description:

Create a unique face using fused fabrics. The creation of these faces will come from the participants. Using handout examples of face shapes and facial features or thinking of their own unique shapes, participants will create a face, any kind of face; serious faces, cartoon faces, long faces, short faces, big faces, little faces. This class is limited only to the participants’ imagination. These created face shapes and facial features will then be adhered to a background. Demonstrations will be given on thread painting these faces and/or drawing on these faces to give more definition to facial expressions or special features on the created piece. Discussions will further suggest other “findings” that can be adhered to the background to further add to the participants’ creations.

Please register on on Textiles / Fabrics  Notification list to be notified when future courses & workshops are scheduled.

Technique

Using Wonder Under Fusible Web adhered to 100 percent cotton fabrics in a parade of colors, we will create eyes, nose, mouth, hair, teeth, and other features on a designed face and fuse these shapes to a 100 percent cotton background that is stabilized using ShirTaylor interfacing.  Handouts will include many ideas for creating the face shapes and facial features.

This workshop is supported in part by Georgia Council for the Arts and through appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. Georgia Council for the Arts also receives support from its partner agency–the National Endowment for the Arts.