Susan Carlson’s Back to Basics Fabric Collage: Part 2 of 3
This is the second week of going back to the basics of fabric collage. My intent is to explain the process as a Summertime Challenge to consume in small bites … Read More
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Susan Carlson’s Back to Basics Fabric Collage: Part 1 of 3
This week and for the following two weeks we’re going back to basics. If you are interested in learning fabric collage but thought it was too difficult, let these posts … Read More
Choosing Your Subject for Fabric Collage (Revisited)
Tom here. Susan is away teaching and she left me in charge. We’ll find out whether that was a good idea or not! Until recently, I had watched Susan teach … Read More
Inside the Mind of Susan Carlson: Fabric Collage First Draft Editing
Fabric collage is flexible. You can change things, then change them again, as much as you want—sometimes it’s hard to stop. This flexibility allows me to work in drafts and … Read More
Sequence in Fabric Collage Part 3: Using Sheers
It’s becoming more and more clear to me how important it is to pay attention to sequence in fabric collage. The order in which you tackle the phases of your … Read More
Sequence in Fabric Collage Part 2: Faces
Some of you may remember Part 1 of this series on sequence in fabric collage, which covered those thin “between” spaces: for example, the veins in a butterfly wing or … Read More
Sort It Out: Organizing Fabric (Updated)
UPDATED FEBRUARY 2, 2021 I first published this post about storing my fabric in January 2016—five years ago. Though the world itself has changed mightily since then (ahhh, sweet days … Read More
The Topography of the Fabric Collage Face
During my January 2021 Patreon Show and Share, I gave feedback to one of my patrons who was working on a father and daughter portrait. She was having trouble with … Read More
New Thursday Night in My Studio Live! Series Starts January 28
UPDATE: The self-directed fabric collage mini-course that’s described below—though no longer “live”—is still available to you through the blog post links and recordings of the resulting Thursday Night presentations. Set … Read More
The Top 5 of Susan Carlson Fabric Collage Posts: In Year 5 of Blog
As the end of the year approaches, and we publish this our last post of 2020, our natural tendency is to look back and reflect. What have we done during … Read More