It was a great first day of our annual spring workshop! Arley Berryhill is our instructor and has been an informative teacher, a delightful guest, and inspiring artist.
He's teaching us his pattern, The Siren. We're making the wall version, in green above. He's also just designed a sitting version.
Our pre-work was to sew & stuff the torso, head & arms. Today it was all about
C O L O R! We experimented with inks and in the coming pictures, you'll see what fun we had and what a variety of creations came of it.
Here are some works-in-progress drying in various stages of assembly. Jack was very clever in creating webbed hands.
We even dyed an assortment of laces to embellish our Sirens.
This is Arley's demonstration doll, showing us how the inks blend.
Our gals from Arkansas are hard at work making tails and fins.
Laurie sewing gorgeous fibers for her mermaid's hair.
A peek inside someone's box of embellishments.
Connie couldn't wait to see how the wig was going to look and draped it on the doll head for a preview.
You could say we "dove in head first" to learn how to paint with ink on fabric and make glorious mermaid coifs with a variety of fibers & ribbons!
Tomorrow we sculpt & color the face then get crazy with embellishments.
They are all coming up beautifully and so colourful, made this doll last year at Cifi and it was great fun.
ReplyDeleteThis sure was a fun class getting to experiment with all those colors and seeing how everyone's mermaids were shaping up!
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