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the next day I had a workshop with , I found Esterita’s website about 4 years ago and thought I would love to take one of her , the one I liked best was about adding depth to your work using paint and yeah that was the workshop at FoQ, so I booked it quick,

it was wonderful, Esterita was soooo organised and knew exactly what she was teaching, I had been sent a very comprehensive supply list when I booked the workshop and Esterita had even included information about what she would be supplying for the workshop,

the morning was spent cutting out and putting together the applied picture, I had Batik fabric that I had made early last year, some of you who used to read my island threads blogger blog may remember the photos, I had done this fabric using found objects as demonstrates, now Rayna is another artist who’s workshop I would like to take, not her batik as I have done batik work but Rayna’s gelatine plate mono printing (although I do ask myself if this is veggie) anyway here’s a photo of my found objects batik fabric,

and here’s one of the appliqué in Esterita’s pattern,

in the afternoon we painted to create depth, you had to imagine a light coming from one direction and so create light on one side and darken the other, which isn’t as straight forward as it sounds,

Esterita used my picture to demonstrate how to add the light and dark paint to create depth, this is the bit she did, notice how the cup and jug now have a distance between them,

Now it was my turn to have ago,

Esterita did a demonstration on how to treat the lid of the pot and I copied what she was doing onto my pot,

here’s the finished fabric picture, sans stitching, I need to do something about the saucer as the cup looks like it is floating above….levitating, I learnt so much,

I had what I had learnt in this class very much in mind when the following week I was making a pastel painting of the jug and vase at and got more depth than I had before, I have not done anything yet but I am thinking of working over some of my small pot art quilts,