Art Journal covers

a couple of months ago, i was lucky enough to get to work with another group of koori students, teaching something textile based. we dyed up silk scarves one week and then made a4 journal covers for their art journal. they could make their own design or copy mine.....some of them did really funky lettering and went to town with the stitching....

we used fabric that they had been practicing their tye dying on ...they ripped and then glue sticked to stiffened calico with some some random sewing.
i was really happy with how they turned out.......and i think they really enjoyed it...

these are my two class ones...

and heres a few photos of the students work.........

front....i showed them how to make fabric beads for the ribbon .....

back....

small a3 cover wip, believe it or not this was black dye but it came out this beautiful indigo color. i intend to free motion over it when i can find my foot :(
this was done with rubber bands....

and this with pebbles....

Pretty Things .....

Well we did have a scrumptious backgrounds class planned but people seem to like to make something and complete it in a day soooo we changed it up a bit....

still lots of messy arty stuff but also a pretty canvas thats achievable in a day...

all the deets here .....as well as Jenny's lovely turquiose and ornage canvas.....

and one of the best bits of our class is Jenny's Jelly slice...nom nom...