As I was writing a recent series of posts featuring completed student work (The Finish Line), a theme arose that at some point many of my students said their projects stalled when they got to the backgrounds. Where do you come up with ideas for background treatments? In class I help my students work through their block by asking them questions, most of which have to do with defining the story they’re trying to tell. In this week’s TBT, I bring back a post on backgrounds where I ask those same questions, using my own work as examples.
Saturday I’ll be finishing up (for now) my series of Finish Line posts, with a focus on friendship and two women who have shared their love of quilting (and now fabric collage) over the years. I trust you’ll be duly impressed with their projects.
Fabric Collage Master Class
For instructions on the entire fabric collage process, you can purchase the Susan Carlson Fabric Collage Online Master Class Manual. Using video, photos, and text I take you from soup to nuts, beginning to end in creating your own fabric collage masterpiece.
Backgrounds! Many of us have agreed that often the background is more difficult than the main character. For instance, if the main character is a cat, a fish, a dog, we have a definite idea what that should look like, whereas what surrounds it can be–well, the sky’s the limit! Answering Susan’s questions about who, where, why are very helpful in creating the background.