Painted Fabrics from Judy Coates Perez Class

Here are some of my creations from the class I took from Judy Coates Perez last weekend.  See prior post for more information on that wonderful class.

Arashi Shibori using fabric paint.

This one is far from done, but shows a few techniques we played with  including stamping on fabric, laminating abaca fabric with copyright free images printed on them, etc. 

On this one, we applied salt while the paint was still quite wet. One of he cool things about painting fabric, vs. dyeing is that you get two values, one lighter, one darker.

Painted and scrunched and allowed to dry.

Accordion folded shibori

More painted and scrunched fabric.

For this one we put items underneath it and allowed it to dry. 

 Again, you can see how one side is much more vibrant the other.

Judy Coates Perez Class

Attended a great two day class at SLO Creative Studios http://www.slo-creative.com  taught by Judy Coates Perez. I've admired her work for a long time. Her painted quilts are simply gorgeous. She has won may awards as well. She was a very giving teacher in terms of sharing many techniques,  materials and tools. There was a great group of women and it was lots of fun. I highly recommend taking a class from her if you ever get a chance.

Above is a picture of Judy teaching us how to use stencils in a variety of ways.

Below are some samples of her beautiful work.  To see more go to http://www.judycoatesperez.com

Below is a picture of Susan from my quilt guild showing her work on the design wall.