Swatch Book	12:00 - 6:00 Saturday (short mid-day break for shopping)
	Lesley Riley	$145

Student Level: All
Type of Workshop: Process and Project
Prerequisite: None

Attention all painters, collage artists, art quilter, jewelers, beginners, intermediates and pros! Fabric is most versitle design element that adds texture, color, pattern, movement, variety and most of all pizazz to your art. Creating your own fabric elevates its power and your art to a new level.

In Swatch Book, you’re the designer. You will create a variety of hand-painted and printed fabrics using easy techniques to create stunning original fabrics. Working on large fabric squares, you’ll make enough designer fabric to bind into your own 6”x9” handmade swatch book plus have leftovers to use in your art.

You’l learn how to combine colors, layer motifs and pattern, and my favorite, controlled happy accidents. It will feel like play but the learning will go deep and provide you with a whole new art material to add to your repetoire.

Materials Fee: $25 payable to Instructor at class time includes:
All fabrics
Specialty paints
Backing board & bar
Backing board fabric
TAP transfer text
Long needles & heavy duty thread

Student should bring:
4 - 1” foam brushes plus another brush for acrylic paint (#4 round or similar)
3-5 bottles of craft paint in your favorite colors.
2 water containers
Apron & gloves
Your favorite stencils (I’ll also provide some)
3 or more foam stencil pouncers (Martha Stewart has a good multi-size kit)
Scissors
3 or 5 - 2-hole buttons - 1/2” to no larger than 1” (OK to mix & match)
Elmers School Glue
Reynolds Freezer Paper
Heat gun
12” ruler
X-Acto knife
Rotary cutter & 12”+/- cutting mat if you have one (there will be both to share)

If you'd like to place an advance order for supplies & tools for pick up at the on-site store when you arrive at AU, contact: The Occasional Artist - Email your order to: theoccasionalartist@cox.net or call 623-847-2215

Questions? email Lesley at lrileyart@gmail.com
Website: lesleyriley.com