Arrowmont Surface Workshop
Last weekend, I attended a surface design workshop at
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee with the wonderful
Chandra DeBuse! It was a weekend filled with lots of laughs, hard work, tea, and not much sleep...
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| Decal Demo with Chandra. |
The workshop was focused on surface design we started the class making color studies and designing paper plates. It seems very low tech but it was a wonderful way to get ideas out onto forms. It also made for a little more excitement then using my sketchbook. I will be use this activity in my classroom in the future!
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| Decorated Paper Plates. |
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| Group Conversation. |
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| We Even Saw A Bear Outside the Window! |
The next part of the workshop we used commercial plates to explore surface through color decals. Using the color studies and paper plate sketches as a guide. We also spent time talking about content in our work and how it surfaces (in color for example). I have long been interested in the human body but have been questioning how my new found interest in medicinal plants can merge with the body.
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| Decal Plates Fresh Out of the Kiln. |
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| The Class Picture. |
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| Arrowmont BFF's Emily, Me, Katie, Chris |
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| Being Silly. |
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| Plates, Plates, Plates. |
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| Some of My Weekend Creations. |
A big THANK YOU to
Linda Arbuckle who designed this course and
Chandra DeBuse who was willing to come in a fill the big shoes! If you ever get the chance I highly recommend you take a workshop with
Chandra!
