"When In Doubt Use Turquoise" Lecture
Gail Thomas Art Quilts Truck Show
The Art of Painting on Fabric using Angel Paints. http://www.angelpaint.com/ With these paints you can design and create your own fabric.
Fabulous paint, smooth to work with, iron to set, washes beautifully and the painted fabric remains pliable and soft to sew.
This class involves using a bit of patience to listen to a few techniques, the belief that everyone is an artist and the gumption to give it all a try. Gail believes you will LOVE it.
When Gail first started working with fabric, many moon ago...at that time there was no "Fabric Paint", as we know it now. One could use acrylic paint with some success yet you would have to water the acrylic down and then it would bleed. Angel Paint will not run if you do not want it to.
Gail intends to share her knowledge with anyone interested in The Art of Painting on Fabric.
The Art of Painting on Fabric Kit includes: two tote bag patterns large/small, a book of some of Gail's Decorative Design Patterns, a set of ANGEL PAINTS, brushes, 2x 12" X12" squares of cotton batik fabric.
Whether beginner to advanced, Gail can guide you through cutting out the tote bags pieces, transferring decorative designs to fabric, painting the designs and sewing all the painted bits together to make a versatile laptop and colourful quilt holding tote.
The two batik squares in The Art of Painting on Fabric Kit are part of a new class section "Batik Has a Unique Story" Gail believes that everyone can see unique different shapes and designs when really looking at most batik fabric.
"Batik Has a Unique Story" is a guide up the road to discovery, with the help of a few very simple visual exercises. Easy playful exercises that Gail uses regularly herself. Then, to begin by looking at the batik fabric for awhile and applying a bit of playful imagination, eventually shapes will begin to emerge upon the surface of the fabric. Create a drawing on the image that is showing itself. After the image(s) are drawn, the wonderful job of the painting what you see comes next. and "The story begins...
The Three Sisters Quilts: The Three Sisters and Seasonal Sisters original design sketches were created in a similiar way yet the visualization of the story images are on white and hand-pressed paper instead of fabric.
If there is something from a photo, sketch or an idea that you have a hankering to paint bring that along as well.
Lecture "When in Doubt Use Turquoise" and Trunk Show $260.00
For 15 students Gail fee starts at $450.00 (All of Gail's fees are negotiable)
$25.00 per day for each additional student after that.
Gail E. Thomas is currently and has been painting for 51 years, sewing for 46, teaching for 26, and quilting for 11 years. Gail has won many National and International Awards for her Art Quilts. she is one of The Three Sisters with Annette M. Hendricks of Grayslake Illinois and Helen Godden of Canberra Australia. Tri- Nation Quilting Sisters. Her work can be seen in private and corporate collections in Canada, USA, England, Wales and Australia.
Come join her, Gail enjoys sharing her knowledge and her LOVE of painting.
To Contact for Questions/Bookings : tyderw@shaw.ca
If you would like to see more of Gail's Art http://www.gailthomasart.com/
Supply list for The Art of Painting on Fabric:
2 1/2 yds. 2 meters white to cream cotton fabric (pre-washed)
2 1/2 yds. 2 meters very dark cotton fabric (pre-washed)
2 1/2 yds. 2 meters of 1/2" velvet ribbon (any colour) (or fancy cord)
2 large buttons
Water container(at least 6 emptied yogurt containers with lids), paint tray(with lots of compartments) for your mixed paint, plastic wrap, a flat tray (11"X14"or larger)(an old cookie bake tray is wonderful), black or white garbage bags, sponges, plastic gloves, masking tape, a retractable sharp blade, scissors, rotary cutter, cutting mat, paper towels or cloth rags if you rather, pencil, pen, fabric markers, sketch book or journal, your perferred hand-sewing gear * bring what you are used to and a kneaded eraser. Plus your camera.
2. Drawing From the Beginning
Where can the creative juices take us when we explore the world of drawing for the absolute pleasure of it?
To draw or sketch is the beginning of quite a lot of projects.
A doodle is a drawing.
When you design something or draw out a sketch before cutting, painting or just colouring with a pencil, crayon, pastel on paper or fabric that is drawing.
There is a theory going around these days that everyone is an artist. That statement has been proven to be true many times. There are just a few techniques to learn. The idea is to draw what you see not what you think you see.
Everyone on this earth can see colour and shapes differently...think of the possibilities!
Supplies Fee: $40.00
List of supplies that you can bring:
Drawing board, paper towels or cotton rags, masking tape, pencil sharpener, large plastic garbage bag and gloves ( if required)
Once the techniques are acquired and drawn out, all it takes is a little patience and a bit of practice.
Come and join Drawing From the Beginning Group and discover your inner artist.
Gail loves to share her connection with drawing. She finds it is a wonderful beginning to many things. She has been a professional practicing artist for 32 years. Gail's drawings and paintings can be seen in private and corporate collections in Canada, USA, England, Wales and Australia.
3. Drawing With Colour
Move over graphite, conte and charcoal, coloured pencils are circling the drawing community. When you look at black and white photos or old movies do you find yourself trying to imagine or figure out what the original colours are or were? Do you create your own interpretations from the grays? We are going to take all that is a little flat in the grays and enhance, combine and smudge them with colour to add a spectrum of variety to the black and white drawing world.
Supplies Fee: $40.00 ( watercolour pencils, paper,...)
List of supplies that you can bring:
Drawing board, pencil sharpener, masking tape, kneaded eraser, if you want to work from photos bring those along and gloves (if required)
Discover a hidden desire for drawing, experience coming out of the grays into colour. Draw what you see not what you think you see. Everyone looks at colour and shapes differently. Lets expand our knowledge and open up our eyes to see all the colourful drawing possibilities that are out there.
Gail carries a set of watercolour pencils wherever she travels. She loves to bring out her coloured pencils and head to a park or to the ocean, find a comfortable spot to settle in and draw. Water and snacks are welcome too.
Gai, E. Thomas has her drawings and paintings in private and corporate art collections in Canada, USA, England, Wales and Australia.
4. Watercolours on Fabric
Have you ever stood really close to an original painting? You can see all the brush strokes, the texture, the paint with one colour on top of another coming together to create a masterpiece. When the same painting is viewed at a distance, one can see what the artist is expressing with colour and shapes, she is painting what she sees. When painting in the watercolour style on fabric, after the sketch on the fabric is complete, light washes are applied then left alone to dry, only to be reapplied again with another wash. Watch the colours build and give life to the fabric which in turn displays beauty to the viewer.
"The Dusty Trail"62"X38"
Supplies Fee: $110.00 ( Angel Paint, watercolour pencils, brushes)
List of supplies you can bring:
2 yards or more of white cotton washed and ironed
Kneaded eraser
Masking tape
Large plastic garbage bag
Gloves( if required)
Scissors ( for paper and fabric)
Paper for drawing your pattern
Pencils
Pencil sharpener
Paper towels or cotton rags
As you watch and pay attention in life to the changing light, seasons, the different shapes and vast variety of colour that surrounds you. Do you ever question the why and how of it all, do you realize how blessed we all are. Do you ever feel as though you would like to capture a scene in front of you or recreate something from a photograph with paint on paper and fabric.
Just one step at a time, one layer after another and you will start to see images that you have painted emerging from a piece of fabric. What, I mean to say is... would you like to paint on fabric what you see... so others can see ...what you see.
Gail E. Thomas has been painting since the age of 7 ( 51 years). She has her work in private and corporate art collections in Canada, USA, England, Wales and Australia.
Come and join her, she enjoys sharing her knowledge and her love of painting.
5. Portraits on Fabric
This class is about finding ourselves in our portraits.
When one draws and paints a portrait of someone else, we get this incredible chance to see inside someone elses heart, in some ways it is a very personal thing. When we draw what we see in each person as we see it, that is our intreputation of how we see them. Everyone on this whole wonderful earth see colour and shapes differently...
When given the chance to do a self-portrait that is where we find answers to questions we have thought to ask ourselves yet never allow the time to do so.
When I begin a portrait, I start with the eyes , from there to the nose, back up to the eyebrows, back to the nose then the mouth and ears then chin. This is where I start ...that does not mean that you have to do the same...some like to start with the shape of the face..Every square inch on our face tells a tale, what really tells the portrait's story though are the eyes. Our wonderful beautiful eyes.. each pair unique.. different!
When I am creating I have guides that are with me, to council and guide me through each brush stroke. When I am working on someone elses portrait, especially when the loved one I am painting has passed, I feel their presence as well.
The detail above is of Alex Anderson from "Grandmother's Legacy" 43"X56" Quilt 2009
Although I really enjoy working with humans when someone asks me to to paint their dog, well what occurs is absolute joyful pleasure...
The same tecniques apply when drawing and painting animals.
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In the Portraits on Fabric Class we will be using Angel Paint http://www.angelpaint.com/
Angel paint works wonderful well on fabric, when painting a portrait on fabric I would not use anything else.
Supplies Fee: $110.00
This class is a fantastic way to get to know yourself again and be able to express the inner you . It is a tremendous way to learn some new techniques and then to act on them with colour. If you have a look at Art History portraits of people and animals came in all shapes and sizes...
Gail Has been painting and drawing people and animal portraits for 42 years and counting......................
6. Vibrant Oil Pastels
We are blessed to see, feel and touch colour. Drawing with oil pastels is fun and colour vibrant. Creating your own interpretation of what you see is an exciting added bonus.
There are no rules. You can be part of the joy of placing pastels to paper and seeing images emerge from the page before your very eyes.
Supplies Fee: $40.00 ( oil pastels, paper, ...)
List of supplies for you to bring:
Drawing board, paper towels or cotton rags, masking tape, pencils, kneaded
eraser, if you have oil pastels bring them along ( I will be bringing sets of oil pastels and paper),
large plastic garbage bag and gloves ( if required)
Gail is a professional practicing artist, whose love of colour is evident in her work. Gail has found oil pastels to be a great tool to open up artistic blocks, allowing the creative juices to flow.
