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Hope and Wonder

A small but enthusiastic group of lovely ladies arrived at the Thea & Sami studio last Saturday for a creative day of screen-printing fun.


Nurse Tania Davidovic printed some groovy words to make Christmas cushions for friends.

Emma Gascoyne printed some lovely silhouettes including Alice in Wonderland and these stylish chairs. Emma is a fellow artisan that sells at the Young Designers Market each month, specialising in jewellery designs. Visit Up in Annie's Room to check out her creations and to see what became of Alice.

Ally Cooper loves horses as does her daughter. How cute is this pony? Also printed onto a t-shirt for her lucky girl.

Ally further experimented with printing the same image in 2 colours. The shadow effect below was achieved by printing the second colour in a different position.

Here is the last screen-printing class of 2009. Emma, Tania and Ally.

Never mind if you have missed out this year. We are planning an Open Studio day for Saturday, November 14 so please mark your diaries. The day will include fabric-printing demonstrations.

Tsk Tsk is in the Studio

I was honoured to have the very talented Tiel Seivl-Keevers in my screen-printing class yesterday.  Tiel is an illustrator, fabric designer, soft toy-maker plus a young mother of two.  Tiel needed no introduction to screen-printing but wanted to refresh her skills to concentrate on fabric designs & prints this year.


 
These floral prints are an example of Tiel's unique style and you can see more of her work by checking out Tsk Tsk, her design company.



This beautiful white print was done on paper and only smudged a little because the screens (43T mesh) we were using were better suited for fabric.  Paper generally requires a finer mesh screen and poster ink.  However, you can successfully screen-print on more fibrous, hand-made paper with the fabric screens and Permaset Aqua inks.

No Need to be a Professional

Brisbane designers often attend the Thea & Sami Screen-Printing Workshops to learn fabric printing and to find inspiration for their work in various mediums.  It may seem daunting for others to be surrounded by professional artists. However, I can assure you that even participants who insist that they are not artistic, will often amaze themselves with what they achieve.



Emily Cottrell was one of our delightful class attendees yesterday and was a little nervous about her abilities but as you can see, her flower design is adorable.  She printed other cute designs too but chose this one for her organic cotton t-shirt and left quite pleased and rightfully so!

Emily is an admininistrative assistant by day but does enjoy sewing and quilting in her spare time.  I do believe that everybody is creative.