A Spot of Tea in Long Beach

My last class in Long Beach was Tea & Ephemera, where everyone works with drawing and painting on tea bags, collaging; printed abaca paper, decorative art papers, napkins and old garment patterns, bits of text from books and foreign newspapers and iron on ink jet transfers made with TAP. Then another layer of visual texture is added with rubber stamps and oil sticks with stencils.

It's a great opportunity to try out a lot of different mixed media techniques.

Heavy Metal in Long Beach

Heavy Metal Play Day is a day of fun and exploration; embossing and adding color to metal in a variety of ways, working with both aluminum and copper.

It was another great workshop at International Quilt Festival.

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A few things.

We have had a quite a journey over the last several weeks. You can read about it here.



The "Birds" show has closed. Here are the paintings that are still available. Shoot me a private message at tracey@traceyclarke.com if you'd like to purchase. As always, payment plans work great for me, too. Thank you to everyone who bought work from the show. Enjoy.

Tsukineko Inks at International Quilt Festival, Long Beach

My first day teaching at festival, I had a full class with 24 students and a lot of wonderful work was produced using Tsukineko's All Purpose Inks.

We always start by using a dry brush method; dipping the fantastix tool in to the ink and working on white fabric and then progress to using paint brushes and lightly colored hand dyed fabric.

It was really fun seeing these two gals in my class again, they took my mixed media painted fabric class in Long Beach last year.

One of my other students from that class last year, Ruth Hunt, was also in a couple of my classes this year and brought this beautiful bag she made from the fabric she painted and collaged in class last year.

I love seeing the things people make using the techniques they've learned in my classes.

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