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Handwork - Colour Play
Our use of colour - how we use it and combine it - is vital to the success of most of our craft projects. Spend the morning with Anna Farago learning some tips and tricks to working with colour, adding depth to your craft practice.
Teacher: Anna Farago
Workshop Duration: Half Day
Description: Anna will talk through examples of the use of colour in her own work and how some history and theory of art and design can be used to inform making. You will be given time to experiment using grids, create designs using coloured pencils, watercolour or collage. These designs can then be used (or not) to make a series of ‘fabric sketches’.
Materials to bring:
- a set of coloured pencils and/or a set of watercolours and/or a set of colour paint samples from a hardware/paint shop
- sewing machine and notions (optional)
- fabric scraps (optional)
Fabric sketches and quilt examples, some fabric scraps, cutting mats and rotary cutters will be supplied.
Takeaway: fabric sketches & designs on paper
Level: Beginner
Prerequisites: none
So I wrote last week a post asking “Is my making fast fashion?”. And then I did a video on Instagram discussing similar topics in a slightly different way. And as always, you lovely humans have helped me clarify some of my thinking with your thoughtful, clever commentary.
And while I think there is so much more to discuss, here are four key possibly-more-meta ideas that have come up for me out of those conversations.
In using the quote last week that suggested that there was no single answer, and suggesting that this was freeing, I really did mean that we should sit in the grey. Not that the lack of “an” answer to this question should mean we get to ignore the question but rather that the lack of “an” answer means that we need to keep asking bigger more beautiful questions. And keep asking them.
Is my making fast fashion?
Am I living my values or merely thinking them?
And how can I make those two things a little more aligned in this moment?
These are my big beautiful questions.
Yours might be different.
And importantly this leads to point 2.