On Friday evening November 7th FIBREWORKS Kingston welcomed Lynne Morin from Kanata, ON as our #2 Workshop Instructor in the Fall 2014 series.
Following a great introduction to the techniques her students would be using over the weekend, LYNNE shared many pieces of her art at the Friday evening Lecture/Trunk Show at St. Lawrence College. Her audience of 38 attending artists and friends enjoyed chatting about "contemporary art" as they circulated Lynne's pieces through the room.
Thanks so much for sharing your artwork, Lynne... we all have a new understanding of your techniques and approach to your studio-based creative process. Thanks, too, for the tips about approaching Galleries when we have work to share!
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| 15 grateful students who made AWESOME art in Lynne Morin's course The Same, But Different, FW #2, November 2014
During the two days in the classroom, Lynne walked us through a number of approaches to creating design, including inspiration, resources, sketchbook use and beginning the process of laying pencil to canvas to design the first of two great small art works that would be painted on Saturday. The painted were mixed and colour laid to the canvas, with modifications along the way, much consultation with Lynne and each other, the pieces began to come together.
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| Darlene Moritz, first exercise, painted and stitched paper on Saturday |
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| and while underway, here is Darlene's resulting painted canvas inspired by the first exercise... |
Many of the students were all ready with ideas for some of the stitch work and painting and they came prepared with books, photos, camera shots for inspiration. Work came together quickly and the sewing machines were humming throughout the day.
Susan Farber begins a new series, and exploring great paint techniques is resulting in a
lot of movement reminiscent of a dust storm in the desert...
(well, maybe that is not what she saw, but My interpretation)
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| Catherine Timm working on the initial painting of her first piece after sketching the design onto the canvas frame...painting followed.
Catherine's first finished piece (below), with the addition of ice dyed fabrics she brought to use in her pieces was stitched into the composition, and small sections of layered and stitched merino rovings on a base of cotton and interfacing was cut and fitted into the artwork.
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During the two days in the classroom, Lynne walked us through a number of approaches to creating design, including inspiration, resources, sketchbook use and beginning the process of laying pencil to canvas to design the first of two great small art works that would be painted on Saturday. The paints were mixed and colour laid to the canvas, with modifications along the way, and with consultation with Lynne and each other, the pieces began to come together.
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| Maxine Bowen worked with inspiration from a favourite Emily Carr piece... |
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| Robin Field - detail and colour excellence evident as she worked |
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| Lynne and Catherine with more consultation underway- piece one finished and number two being laid out on the canvas |
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| Lorriane and Crystal hard at work... stitches added, work almost ready for re-framing |
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| The finished work heading to the front of the room as completed and ready for viewing.... |
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| Ruth, Ann, Mary and Robin observing and chatting about paints, process and Beth in the corner stitching! |
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| Ruth Leblanc, Bethany Garner and Joan Willison, with work underway - exploring, thinking, ever-changing |
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| Sandra Smith - one done and one to go. Photographs from family travels as inspiration and no fear as she worked resulting in stunning abstract interpretations |
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| Darlene Moritz... the Series begins! Now for more canvasses. Wallack's anyone? |
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| Crys Patry did the most stunning piece on the left. A second piece was started to finish her Series Bethany's (right)... well still underway. |
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| Beth Abbott painted a striking abstract to which she would add native symbols in thread and stitch. Cannot wait to see this one finished with Beth's excellent stitching added
Lynne made sure that each of her students had lots of individual consultation time as she circulated the room, making suggestions and working through ideas and possible solutions with the students. At the end of the two days together, the tables were filled with brilliant art work, and when the painted canvas was removed from the wooden frame, stitched and then re-stretched and stapled with the help of John Morin.
The students were ready to step back and enjoy the work while chatting about the value of their two days together in Lynne's classroom. 
Overall, while perhaps we were not quite sure as we registered for this weekend where the two classroom days would take us, after two really wonderful days with friends and lots of shared fun and creativity, everyone agreed that this was a great experience, opening up all new windows of exploration with paint and stitch!!!
So many thanks to Lynne and all of our Workshop #2 students. All new SERIES of work to be anticipated as spring 2015 is not far off! Do come back in the spring!
FIBREWORKS KINGSTON looks forward to
SPRING 2015 WORKSHOPS #3 and #4
Hope you will join us again in April 2015 and carry on with HOLLY DEAN as we create painted canvas covers for our MUSE JOURNALS and learn bookbinding skills along the way. Holly is so much fun... talents abound , and she brings us years of experience as a collage artist, calligraphy expert and bookbinding master... come play!
In May 2015, DIANNE GIBSON will join us for her MIXED MEDIA ASSEMBLAGES weekend, and believe me, Dianne is the master of collage play! This is one workshop you will NOT want to miss.
Thanks to all of our Fall 2014 students and our amazing and wonderful Artist Instructors...
Bethany Garner, FW Coordinator
Registration forms for #3 and #4 are here on the blog on the right sidebar
for our Spring 2015 Fibreworks Courses
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