Every year we do a workshop that is unrelated to our usual meetings. In the past this has been self directed with one of two of our members leading the day. This year we decided to engage a tutor and chose Inga Hunter. The workshops were held at Inga's studio in the Blue Mountains on Sunday June 27 and at the Embroiderers' Guild HQ on Sunday July 25. Inga works in a variety of mediums and for us she took us out of our comfort zone of textiles and lead us, gently, into the realm of paper through prints and collage. The prints were done on a variety of paper using gelatin blocks. We also talked about where we are individually heading through our art. This afforded us the opportunity to examine what we've done in the past by selecting a number of our previous works to take to the first workshop for discussion. She also encouraged us to think laterally in terms of materials and techniques, the sausage casings she is currently working with took us by surprise.
Here are some of the collages...
Sheralie used some of her leaf prints in her collage.
Robin had a great time doing the collages and produced 5
Annette G did hers while on holidays and used found papers only for her first collage and then, after visiting
Falkiners in London, used a variety of papers from their extensive range.
The gelatin block prints were a lot of fun and we produced some interesting results...
Sheralie really got into this technique
Annette liked her results
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