Last Sunday I took part in a wonderful online workshop which was organised by Crafty Monkies. I follow Crafty Monkies on Instagram and saw the class posted in their feed. I was immediately drawn to the cat faces so full of character and wanted to find out more. The tutor was Melissa Averinos; she is an artist living on Cape Cod. The workshop started with some drawing of cat faces, where we experimented with different shapes of heads, ears and eyes. After that we moved onto fabric and Melissa showed us just how easy it is to change the mood of a cat simply by changing things like the mouth and eyebrows. (I know that cats don't really have eyebrows, but we weren't creating 'real life' cats!) Have a look at these picture to see what I mean...
*** sad cat ***
*** happy cat ***
*** angry cat ***
During the 3 hour workshop, Melissa showed us examples of her own cat faces and talked about ways of sewing the fabrics onto the background. I'm looking forward to having more of a play around and making some little cat pictures or perhaps cushion covers. You can never have too many cushions!! That's what I used to tell Mr JK anyway! It's best to stick with fabric that's not too busy - I think they're called blenders in the quilting world. I have a bag full of scraps to delve into - I knew it was going to be worth keeping them!
I'm going to take a look at other workshops that Crafty Monkies are running and see if anything else catches my eye. Have you done any online crafting workshops? Let me know if you have, I'm always on the look out for something new to try. xxx
1 comment:
Oh Helen they're gorgeous! I especially like the brown one with the zig zag edging. I look forward to seeing your finished creations in due course.
Jane
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