Silk Artist Debra Dolsberry from Big Island of Hawaii visiting Vancouver this summer and will hold four workshops in our studio! Exciting!
This is an amazing opportunity to make a summer gift for yourself or your friends and family - beautiful and colorful silk scarf!
It is from 10 am to 4 pm with one hour lunch break, this time is enough to finish one 44"X44" scarf.
Each day is 50$, which includes:
High quality silk surface scarf, shared dies 5 colors with resist, brushes to use, stretching system, clips, simple lunch and tea.
These workshops will include:
- Introduction to dye flowing on silk
- Brief discussion of dyes and their properties
- Creating colors from the basic Magenta, Yellow, Blue and Black
- Overlay of colors on the silk
- Modifying texture of color with water, alcohol and salt
- Moving color and resisting color with water and alcohol
- Plaids, modified stripes, free form, and loosely drawn tropicals are the primary motifs
- Creating a design with resist
- Learning to control resist flow for consistent lines
- Determining density and color selection for resist lines
- Using resists to create an abstract design
There is no previous art-related experience necessary, but please, share your practice history with us upon registration. Ask more questions via email: vancouveratelier@gmail.com or call in the pm 778 239 2922.
