25+ Ways to Make Art Fabric Online:
This course focuses on creating 25+ small art fabrics using (mostly) fabric paints. Rich color renderings produce enlivened color and textural qualities that can be used for symbolism and storytelling.
For some of you this may be the first time you have worked with these methods in a more complex way.
You do not need special equipment to work as full instructions on how to set up a controlled workspace within your home are provided.
Open to All Levels of Experience
There is a wealth of material in the form of Power Point Presentations and videos that will be processed in each live online class session with your tutor Gail Harker and then sent to students after each session. Since the sessions are live, you will have time for discussions and to ask all your questions!
Live Online Class Dates
All Classes are held from 6 – 8 pm in the US Pacific time zone, unless notated otherwise. If you are outside of the the US Pacific time zone, please check your local time, particularly if your location changes to/from Daylight Savings Time on a different schedule. To check and convert times please visit TimeAndDate.com.
See Below for our Upcoming Dates!
25+ Ways to Create Art Fabric – Complete Course Cost including 4 Live Online Class Sessions, Videos, PowerPoint Presentations and PDFs only:
$260.00
Class Dates
2025-2026 Online Class Dates (all times are 6 – 8 pm in the Pacific Time Zone unless otherwise noted):
- Session 1 – Oct, 20 – 6pm – 8pm – presentations
- Session 2 – Oct 27 – 6pm – 8pm – presentations
- Session 3 – Nov. 3 – 6pm – 8pm – presentations
- Session 4 – Nov 24 – 6pm – 8pm – presentations
Please note that if you can’t make a class, you will still receive all the materials covered in the class!
Meet Your Tutor!
Gail Harker, L.C.G.I.
A Canadian who moved to Britain in 1976 with her American husband and family, Gail studied art in Canada, England and Scotland. She completed both Parts 1 and 2 (Diploma) of the City and Guilds Design and Embroidery course with Distinction in both parts. She was awarded the Senior Qualification of Licentiateship (LCGI) by the City and Guilds Institute and continued on teaching City and Guilds and becoming an External Verifier for student work. Returning to the US with her family in 1995, she has taught courses in Design and Embroidery and directed the Arts Center she founded in Washington state. She has written five books on embroidery published in both Britain and the US. Over her career, she has taught thousands of students, sharing her passion for embroidery, textiles, and design.
Gail’s Expertise
I have been evolving imaginative painting, printing and resist methods using traditional, non-traditional, and unconventional materials for over 30 years. Passing these specialist tips and tricks on to my students while working together in the studio has been a joy. Now we are offering this course online! The result of the course is to produce an incredible compendium of unique colors, patterns, textures and techniques in fabric samples and your own photos. Students may decide to use these fabrics as visual reminders of the process or for creating other artwork.
Summary of Session Activities
Layers of Color
- Learn about Systematic Color Schemes and how to use them.
- Use color proportion in Systematic Color Schemes
- Use light to dark and bright to neutralized values!
- Use texture to show movement and directionality.Use styles such as radiational, horizontal, vertical, and organic.
- Use subtlety to blur and bleed line edges.
- Use crisp sharp lines and soft diffused ones.
- Use complex colors by premixing colors.
- Use complex colors by mixing colors on the fabric.
Resist Images
- Use fabric manipulation to create different resists.
- Gather a collection of resist materials.
- Make your own resist materials.
- Learn to create mini designs using some of the elements of art and design.
- Draw and cut out plastics, papers, and foam.
- Make stencils and templates.
- Create abstract patterns using the elements of art and design.
- Draw on painted fabric with colored pencils, crayons.
- Combine images to create interesting and imaginative positive and negative spaces.
Other Effects
- Overprinting
- Use of other media such as colored pencils, fabric pencils, crayons, and pens.
Fabrics
Fabric type and quality play a large part in the varied visual effects that can be accomplished. Each fabric has a characteristic feature of its own. Four unique fabrics will be recommended but you can add more and play with others if you like. I will be demonstrating and talking about several fabric types. I will focus on the painted fabric from the method of paint application to the feel (hand) of the fabric after it is painted to how fabric is dried and color fixed.
After the class, fabrics will be able to be used in any sewing, quilting, embroidery, or other artistic project!
For Complete Details CLICK HERE to see the Course Brochure-25 Ways to Create Art Fabric Online.
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25+ Ways to Create Art Fabric – Complete Course Cost including 4 Live Online Class Sessions, Videos, PowerPoint Presentations and PDFs only:
$260.00
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