Alison Holt - Dancing in the Breeze 2 day workshop

Inspired by dancing cow parsley and tall poppies in a summer breeze, you will create a painted and stitched landscape.
We will explore the painterly elements of free hand machine embroidery. Learn how to paint skies and distant hills to give depth to your picture. Learn stitch techniques for trees, hedges, and foreground details including grass, poppies, cow parsley and wild flowers.

We will outline a design on silk with resist; paint a background with silk paints and apply a range of embroidery techniques. Students will work from photographs of landscapes of their choice or from a selection provided by the tutor.We will be covering aspects of art theory such as designing balanced compositions, aerial perspective and linear perspective, colour mixing in paint and in thread. Investigate the way texture and colour creates depth and perspective and how to draw with stitches.
 

After payment is received a requirements list will be sent out. There is a small kit of materials covered in the cost of the workshop.