Instructor: Jo Stealey
Materials Fee: $40 (May be additional cost for special papers, if used)
Basketry techniques are the foundation for many sculptural works. This workshop will expand your creativity while exploring a variety of twining and lashing techniques with flat & round reed. The forms developed will be utilized to create unique armatures for sculptural vessels that will be covered with a skin of paper or cloth to create three-dimensional canvases. The forms will be finished with surface techniques such as mark making, collage, drawing, painting, more layers of paper, and/or stitching.
Some weaving experience helpful but not necessary.
In this workshop, students will learn:
- A variety of ways to twine a structure (solid vs. open twining, ti- twining)
- How to develop unusual shaping for a sculptural structure.
- How to cover forms with paper to create a 3D canvas to embellish with additional surface design processes.
- A variety of methods to develop interesting surfaces – collage, stitching, how to incorporate stamping, drawing, and/or paint to complete the piece
- How to develop transparent & opaque layers
Materials Fee: $40
Materials included in materials fee:
- Round reed
- Waxed linen
- Rice paper
- Methylcellulose
- Daniel Smith Mat Gel Medium
- Embroidery floss
- Needles
- Paper plates for mixing paints
- Fixative
Tools that will be provided for you:
- Reed & some other types of weaving materials
- Leftover spools of waxed linen
- Scraps of flat reed for rims
- Scraps of paper & cloth
- Glue
- Conte
- Charcoal
- Acrylic paints (basic colors)
- Stamps (Embellishments (i.e. buttons, beads, found objects, etc)
- Extra pliers, awls, scissors, needles, ruler & tape measure
- Paint brushes
Tools you will need to bring:
- Any tools you normally use for making a basket, e.g.,
- Packing tools
- Awl
- Pliers
- Gardening shears
- Towels
- Optional:
- An object to incorporate into a structure (i.e. small branch, antler, handle, found object, etc)
- Any mark-making materials not noted above you would like to use
- Any paper/cloth scraps you would like to incorporate into a piece (must be thin)
- Beads, buttons or other embellishments
- Any specific colors of threads or waxed linen that you want to use
- Any specific stamps you want to use
- Scissors
- Needles (small & large eye)
- Seamstress tape measure