Surface design students- Seoul

It was very rewarding for me as the teacher to see the wonderful fabric designs produced by the hard working students at the Sookmyung Women's University in Seoul. This university encourages women to study traditional crafts and textiles is a 2 year course. The photo above is of a student new to textile work. I love the kangaroo and the printing and the smile says it all!

Combination of techniques with the rubbing and using Pentel Dye Pastels.
How gorgeous is this rose!

Stencil work

Students had fabric and paints supplied in their kit assembled from locally sourced products.

 

Workshop day

Had a great surface design workshop with these lovely students in Seoul.

Thanks to these lovely young volunteers, Kim and Lee who were my interpreters for the day- couldn't have done it without your help.

Concentration in the classroom.

Finished workshop pieces

Thanks Jullie for sharing your pieces from the October, Sense of Place workshop in Brisbane. I love the bags you have made with the pieces you dyed and printed.

 

Workshop

I have been having a busy time of late = no blog posts. Hoping to make amends this week and to catch you up with what is going on.
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending a Joen Wolfram workshop, on the Gold Coast. It was a huge thrill to meet Joen as her design books were the first ones I had bought in the early 1990's to teach myself about elements and principles and colour.

It was a one day landscape class and we ended up with 2 A4 size studies. Joen supplied the templates for the designs.

A desert landscape

A storm descending. I worked with the commercial fabrics I had brought along and that was a good exercise also.

Here are pieces from other students pinned to the display panels. Each piece was discussed with the whole class and this lead to interesting insights particularly about water scenes.


 

Wattle printing

This variety of wattle is lovely to print as it gives the imprint of the balled flowers.

And some further experiments on bigger pieces. 

If you are interested in learning this technique and other surface design practises, I shall be teaching A Sense of Place for Queensland Quilters at the end of October 24-25 in Brisbane. Please check the 2Q website for specifics, thanks.