Dates: March 9-10, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Cost: $200 per person plus Eventbrite fees
Class size is limited to 20 students.
Refunds: There are no refunds. Contact the organizer for information.
For the dyer, the many choices of dye colors can lead to confusion and sometimes disappointment in color outcomes. This class will help you choose the pure color that will suit you in developing your own personal palette. Carol has dyed over 80 individual palettes, which she will share with you through slide presentations, discussions, and hands-on dyeing. Brilliant yellows, passionate purples, rich reds, astounding blues and soothing greens as well as necessary neutrals will be yours to mix using Procion MX dyes.
This class will focus on:
- developing skill in intuitive color mixing, based primarily on training the eye
- an understanding of the relationship between colors
- understanding warm and cool contrasts
- choosing your personal palette of pure reds, yellow, and blues, from which all hues can be mixed
- how to dye saturated, brilliant colors, and avoid mud when you choose to
- how to create interesting complex neutrals (Bring on the mud puddles!)
- how to shade from value to value and hue to hue
Students will dye up from 8 to 30 yards of cotton (depending on whether one-yard cuts or fat quarter cuts are chosen) using low water immersion techniques. On the first day, you will develop concepts through lecture and discussion, and do some exercises to get familiar with pure hues. On the following days, you will dye yardage using low water immersion techniques, resulting in both solid-colored and multi-colored cloth and explore the possibilities of layering color to enrich the palette, both through overdyeing and printmaking techniques.
You can learn more about Carols work at her website.
Participants will receive tools and materials list by email no later than 30 days prior to the workshop.
