More dye painting from Sue Benner class 07-29-19

This will do it for the fabrics from Sue Benner's class.  I cannot give attribution on all of  them, sorry.  If anyone wants to let me know it is their work I will add their name.

I took my folding clothes rack and  used it to dry some of my pieces, but the wind was so strong I had to tie it to my car door handle to keep it from blowing away.  The white in the middle are the plastic sheets used to separate the layers of wet dyed pieces. 

James Prouten

This was done by applying thick dye to the fabric and then going over it with a tool that is made for furniture repairers to simulate wood grain.  Nifty little thing. 

 Deb Soren

 Sherrie Moomey

Mary Beth Anderson

James Prouten

Bambi Relie

Susan West

Sue Benner - A demonstration piece 44"L x 72"W

I am so impressed by this class and the great work done by students who mostly had little or no previous dye painting experience.  I do recommend it.  

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No! I don't have a terrible cold!! 07-26-19

I have been snorted and coughing and blowing and dripping and...  all of that.  But I don't think it is a cold.   I think it is the pollen in the air.  It feels more like asthma than anything.  I have been doctoring with Robitussin DM, Mucinex, and Airborne.  Having a hard time keeping track of what to take, when.  Anyway, I did not miss any class time, except that I was a little dopey at times!  

The class is over and what a class it is.  If you are interested in painting with dyes in a free, unstructured, inventive design sort of way, this is a class you must take.  

"Expressive DyePainting" with Sue Benner

There is a LOT of information about safety using the chemicals and dyes, pages of "formulas" for mixing different colors and the opportunity to invent your own colors.  You can try different fabrics - cotton (in which I was particularly interested), silk, rayon, linen, bamboo, etc., or any combination of anything.  You are able to see the results other students get, even if you don't do the different fabrics yourself.   There are dozens and dozens of ideas for different tools to use, from those invented for the purpose and everything else one might find around.  Some work out, some don't, you get to see the results of what everyone in the class tries.   Some students worked practically from dawn to dusk and dyed a LOT of fabric.  Others, like I, were too tired by the end of the class time to work on into the evening.  Your choice.  

I have taken some great dyeing classes before, but this one is extra fun and more information than I can absorb in five days.  But I have the great handout and some notes and the fabrics that I dyed to encourage me to try this again.  I will post pictures of lots of different work, mostly without attribution, just so you can see the variety of work done.  Hope it inspires you to take the class.  I may do it again one day!

Black and white and every possible color. Pieces approx 22" X 22"

 Joy Siragusa also did some over dyeing and solid dyeing in plastic Ziplock bags.

Anke Wildman  squeezed out dye and applied some with a brush on the big tile table, laid the fabric over it, brayered it in, and came out with this gorgeous scarf -  the bottom picture is a detail.  Pre-hemmed scarf is 14"W X 72"L

Nita Wester did some fabulous pieces while she also served as an excellent class assistant.  22" squares

I did these three trees on the big tile board - 44"W x 72"L.  I had a hard time keeping an even flow when squeezing the dye out of a squeeze bottle and created some thick blobs.  This will take a lot more work, more dye, more definition.  

Squeezed, brushed, and maybe sprayed.  22" square  Maker unknown.

Bambi Relie on the right did this 44" X 72" piece on the big tile table.  One needs a lifting assistant for these large pieces - Karen Orewiler on the left. 

22" squares by Chris Berry

Close up of texture - maker unknown. 

 Many different application techniques - maker unknown. 

22" square - dripping, squeezing, brushing, dotting.  Maker unknown. 

We were each to do three piece of black and white, but I don't seem to have taken very many pictures of those.  Here is one that I particularly liked along with another piece by Chris Berry.   22" squares

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Empty Spools - Sue Benner "Abstraction" (cont'd) 03-14-17

Final post about the Abstraction class with Sue Benner at Empty Spools - Asilomar. 

 

I recommend this class to anyone who is interested in expanding their repertoire of techniques and skills in the world of quilt making.  Sue is an excellent teacher; well prepared, knowledgeable, attentive to the needs of her students, and fun!   

 

Adele Beher started with the photo from Sue at the top left and abstracted it to the piece at top right.  She doesn't show her inspiration for the five smaller pieces across the middle of the board.  And she was able to get to the large piece at the bottom - great color.

 

 

Marianne Moutoux has her large piece, that she did last, at the top of her board.  Below that are two small pieces abstracted from the bridge.  And below that the orange ball is her abstraction of the photo from Sue.  I don't know about the others on the bottom.

This is a larger image of the large pieces by Marianne Moutoux  

 

 

 

Kimberlie Moutoux shows her abstraction of Sue's photo at bottom right.

She brought the appliqued map from home and built the trees on top of it.  Her six small pieces are in the middle left.

Here is Kimberlie's large project in progress. 

 

 

Bambi Reile accomplished all of this in class.  In the upper right is the picture from Sue and Bambi's abstraction of it.  In the upper left is the inspiration picture from home and all the other pieces are taken from that photo.  She has a good start on a large piece at the left of the board. 

 

 

Florann Ramsey had the top left picture from Sue and abstracted it to the one on the right.

Second from the top on the left is her inspiration photo from home and all the smaller tree-like images are from that phto.  On the right she has started working on her larger piece.

This is Florann Ramsey's larger piece in progress.  The photo at top center is her inspiration, it is in the shape of a nautalis shell with gold fish in it.   

 

 

On the lower left Susan Tomanek worked from Sue's picture on the bottom to create the piece above it.  She doesn't show her inspiration for the five small pieces or the large piece she has started at lower right.

 

 

 

Diana McClun worked from the inspiration image at the bottom to create four smaller abstract works.  

 

 

Charlene Dakin's abstraction of her picture from Sue is at the top left and next to it the picture.  Her inspiration photo of turtles is at the top right with three small pieces around it.

I think that the picture on the turtle skim fabric is a paper collage.  



 

Here are Charlene's image and the three abstractions she created.

Sue Benner on the last day of class.

 

I apologize for the quality of the pictures.  We were in Scripps classroom which has windows on all sides and is terrible for taking photos.  I hope that I have given you a good idea of the class and what can be accomplished with a good teacher. 

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