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January 2010 art experiment
February Handmade Purchase
I went ahead and bought my February Handmade 2010 purchase early, since I had to pick out my own colors and have it made. So I should get it by February. But I was so excited about my purchase that I had to share it with you!! I bought a doggie sweater for Whoopi Doodle the Studio Poodle from Melissa Langer, who is one of my past online students. These sweaters are so cute and she has really reasonable prices from 22.00-28.00 dollars. Here is her Etsy site to check them out. http://www.etsy.com/shop/pugnotes and she also does Pug doggie artwork!
Buy Handmade in 2010
Please support artists that produce handmade products. I did this last year and will continue to do it this year. It doesn't have to cost a lot of money, every bit counts. My January purchase comes from a couple that both lost their jobs last year and started a candle company out of their home. 
If you are ever in my home or studio, I always have candles burning, I get that from my mother that is crazy about candles too.
Every time I made a handmade purchase, I post it on my Facebook page and Twitter it, so I can help spread the love to others!
Candle Lynn soy candles- January 2010 Handmade purchase. I ordered 4 packs:Banana Nut BreadCinnamon BunVanilla Bean SupremeWarm Vanilla Sugar
These are all the scents Jana has!AlmondApple Jack & PeelBananaBanana Nut Bread Blueberry Muffins Bubble GumButtermilk PancakesButterscotch Cake Bake Campfire Smoke Cantaloupe Caramel Carrot Cake Cedar & SaffronChocolate Cappuccino Chocolate Cvrd Berries Chocolate SyrupCinnaberry Cinnamon Bun Cinnamon StickCitronella Coconut Cucumber Melon Cupid Dreamsicle Fireplace French Vanilla Fresh Brewed CoffeeGardenia German Chocolate Cake Ginger Lime Green Apple Hot Apple PieHot CocoaJingleberry Lavender Lemon Lilac Log CabinOrange BlossomPeachPeanut Butter PeppermintPie CrustPine Plantation Pomegranate Popcorn Pumpkin Pie Sea Breeze (flowery)StrawberrySugar Cookie Sweet Dreams Vanilla Bean SupremeWarm Vanilla SugarWild Watermelon
Beads For Life Party
2010 Monthly art experiments
Hey everyone,
I have added a group on the Fiber Art/Mixed Media site for anyone that wants to join in on my fun journey in 2010. It can be any type of art medium...just as long as you try something creative and new!! http://fiberartsmixedmedia.ning.com/group/2010monthlyexperiment
So, pull out all of those art books you have been collecting and magazines you have stacked around your studio.Start flipping through them until you see some technique that interests you and jump right in! You can do more than one a month.
And if you want to add more excitement to the challenge, add Illustration Friday for a word to illustrate each week.
New round of online classes
Here are some of the workshops planned for the Fall/Winter session at Creative Creative Chick Studios online. Sign ups are on my website.
Fiber Collage
6 Lessons/6 weeks
$60.00US
Oct 26- Nov 30th (I have gotten a lot of response to run this class again!)
My Fabric Collage workshop is developed from the tradition of quilting and adding the creativity of art. Taking scraps of fabric, appliqué, threads, beads and embellishments to open up a whole new world of possibilities for self-expression. Fabric collage can lend itself to be abstract, naive, complex or childlike. Designs can come from popular culture, sayings, songs, or stories.
This workshop is for all levels, and no sewing machine is required. Fabrics can be used clothing or bought from a store. Needle and thread are used like drawing tools to add details and color to a piece of fabric. Beads and embellishments make the piece glimmer and three-dimensional. There is no right or wrong way to do it, be experimental and make it as complex or easy as you wish. Think of it as a miniature quilt that has had “glamour" make over!!! The funkier...the better! You don't need any sewing skills; this is about expressing yourself with cloth!!!
All Levels, designed for the beginner
Lesson 1: Overview of Materials, Quilt sandwich
Lesson 2: Design and Appliqué
Lesson 3: Drawing with Thread
Lesson 4: Beading (part 1) Simple
Lesson 5: Beading (part 2) Complex
Lesson 6: Embellishments
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"Personal Symbols"
Star Flower by Susan Sorrell
6 Lessons/6 weeks
$60.00
August 31- October 5
Symbols are a part of our everyday lives and have been existence from the day man drew inside a cave with a piece of coal. They are a part of communication before we developed a language and much of the world's alphabets have derived from symbols. Personal symbols have an influence in artist's work and are not merely designs used in a piece of art. A color, a repeated design or an interesting shape can be symbols used by an artist without thinking about it. By thinking of your life, likes and repeated images can bring meaning into your artwork. Some artists use pictographic symbols rather than realistic representations. They are like autobiographical writings that anyone can understand without the use of words. Symbols can reveal your style and style is the imprint of your personality on your artwork. Don't worry, you don't need to know how to draw or paint, since there is no right or wrong way of creating your own personal symbols.
Artists like Keith Haring, Picasso and Marc Chagall were artists that used symbols in their artworks. These artists incorporated symbols into their work by using shapes, colors and patterns to tell a story. After working with these lessons, you will find that some symbols appeal more to you than others. I hope that the following lessons will help you to express yourself in you own "language". To incorporate this language into your artwork and add interest, send a message or tell a story.
We will be exploring different mixed media techniques with fiber and how you can use these symbols in different ways in your work. This is not a therapy session on revealing your inner most secrets, since I am not a therapist, but to take the designs you use in your art and exploring them further in your own visual language and thinking out of the box.
Cost of workshop $60.00, plus supplies
6 weeks
All Levels
Lesson 1- Symbolic Doodles
Lesson 2-Magazine Fiber Collage
Lesson 3-Collage Symbols
Lesson 4- Symbolic Prints
Lesson 5- Fabric Painting Symbols
Lesson 6-3-D symbols
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Fear No Color
4 Lessons for 4 Weeks
Cost 40.00 US
Sept. 8- Sept 29
www.creativechick.com
Do you want to feel more comfortable using color in your fiber art? This workshop will help you get your mind around color combinations and how the color wheel works. Instead of mixing paints, we will use frosting and food coloring to mix our colors for our color wheel. So, you can eat and learn at the same time! Also, you will get permission to go to the store and buy that big box of Crayons to use in another lesson. Hopefully by using these simple lessons I have put together to learn about color, you will be comfortable in using different color combinations in your fiber art. We will use collage, crayons, fabric and thread to explore color combinations.
4 Lessons/4 weeks
$40.00 US
Lesson 1-Intro to Color
Lesson 2-Collecting Color
Lesson 3-Magazine Collage and Color
Lesson 4-Fiber Collage and Color
4 Lessons/4 Weeks
Sept 16- October 7th
$40.00 US
All Levels, designed for the beginner
Have you always thought embroidery was for grandmother’s in rocking chairs….cross stitching patterns of kittens. Susan has put together a 4 Lesson workshop to break tradition and get your creative juices flowing with lots of colored thread, a fun printed back ground that you create and a simple Crewel needle. Susan will demonstrate simple stitches and a fun way to use embroidery as an art form. This workshop is an introduction to embroidery and focuses on the beginner embroider or anyone that wants to bone up on their embroidery skills. We will be printing our own back ground and using the art of Joan Miro as a jumping off point for our design.
4 Lessons - 40.00 US
Lesson 1: Create your own background design
Lessons 2: Straight stitches
Lesson 3- Looped Stitches
Lesson 4- Fancy Stitches
