handworkstudio.ca

Private Classes

Larry — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:28:45 +0000

Private Art and Handwork Classes with Kathie Young
$50 per hour/includes supplies

Private Art Classes with Larry Young
$65 per hour/includes supplies

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Vase and Easter Egg Workshop

Larry — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:53:34 +0000

Vase & Easter Eggs Workshop
Toronto, ON:

Sunday April 4, 2010, 11:30-5:00
$115 /includes materials

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Ornaments, Little Purse, IPod Case Workshop

Kathie Young — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:20:35 +0000

Take some time out to relax for few hours down by the waterfront. Come join our intimate group of felters at my home studio in Harbour Square. You can choose to make Felted Beads, Baby Gnomes, Baby Angels, Star Babies, a little purse, ipod case and pin cushions.

Bead, Baby Angels or Baby Gnome
February 14, 2010, 11:30-2:00
$45 /includes material

IPod Case or Little Purse
April 11, 2010, 11:30-2:00
$45 /includes material

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Pill Box Hat

Kathie Young — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:19:24 +0000

TORONTO, ON:

Pillbox Hat Workshop
Spend a few hours down by the waterfront with us. Join our small community of felters as we use colored fleece and a needle to create a hat that expresses our own unique personality. This workshop is suitable for beginners and experienced felters.

Sunday March 21, 12:30-5:30 – $115 includes materials.

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Children’s Art Classes

Kathie Young — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:23:35 +0000

PAINTING
Colours speak a language more universal and archetypal than any spoken word. We communicate non-verbally when we speak and hear colour. The colour medium that is closest to pure coloured light is transparent watercolour. Watercolour painting is therefore the medium of choice for painting or colour therapy. We use either the wet-on-wet or veil painting methods. Wet-on-wet has a loosening and strengthening effect. In this method of painting, liquid colour is applied to moistened paper. Water, the bearer of life, facilitates the movement and intermingling of the colours as they create new colours among themselves. Form flows into being, and can dissolve out of it again. The process remains fluid until we choose to stop and let it dry.

DRAWING
Fairy tales, myths and legends inspire the younger children, who then draw scenes from the stories with brightly colored beeswax crayons. Older children, teens and adults learn the grayscale through charcoal drawing and the more difficult medium of scratchboard. Drawing exercises train fine motor skills, develop hand/eye coordination and have a calming effect on the inner life. Black and white drawing exercises focus on line and form and the dynamic interplay of light and darkness. Pencil drawing, in particular, with its fine, clear line “sharpens” the intellect; our faculty of objective thinking. Drawings using continuous, unbroken lines work with the fluid, formative qualities found in nature. When using broken lines we call upon the will and intellect. Studies in light, darkness and shadow speak more to our feelings. One technique that we use is shaded drawing where light-infused forms are created by applying parallel, oblique pencil strokes, bringing darkness into the light with pencil on white paper. This technique is highly meditative and ego strengthening. Form Drawing with colored pencils calls on the inner intelligence hidden in each human being. In the form of a spiral we have all the directions of space contained in a movement – left-right, above-below, in-out, forward and back. Seeing such forms, the child senses these qualities; they relate him to the past and bring him into relationship with the true and beautiful.

HANDWORK
Younger children work with brightly colored beeswax, while older children and teens model clay. Forming and transforming substance is the central activity of modeling. Older students are encouraged to feel both the outside forces pushing into the material to create concave surfaces, and the inside forces pushing out into convex surfaces. When working with clay, the primary challenge is to bring life into a dead material. Students observe this process in the plant world, immerse themselves in it, then “create the way nature does.” (Goethe)

Ages 5-7
Sundays 10:00-11:00
$100 (4 classes, includes materials)

Ages 9-12
Saturdays 11:00-12:30
$30 per class/includes materials

Kathie Young
416-304-0647
phoenixartsgroup@hotmail.com

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Felt Gnome Workshop (Adults)

Kathie Young — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:56:46 +0000

TORONTO, ON:
Using colored fleece and a needle, create a delightful soft sculpture or gnome. This is a needle felting process that is fun and creative. This workshop is suitable for beginners and experienced felters.

March 28, 12:30-5:00 – $95 includes materials.

Instructor: Kathie Young
Location: Harbour Square
Contact: 416-304-0647, email: info@handworkstudio.ca

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Felted Tea/Wine Cozy Workshops

Larry — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:39:36 +0000

Wine Cozy Workshop:
February 14, 2010, 12:30-4:30 – $75 includes material
Tea Cozy Workshop:
February 26, 2010, 10:00-2:30 – $75 includes material

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Felting

Larry — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:15:43 +0000

Felting is the process by which natural wool fiber is stimulated by friction to bind loose fibers together. Natural, unprocessed wool has scaly fibers, which when moistened and agitated bond together, creating a denser fabric. Using a variety of layering and wool colors, beautifully crafted objects ranging from dolls to purses can be created. Handwork Studio felting workshops utilize both wet and needle felting techniques, allowing participants to sculpt, decorate, and form everything ball ornaments and jewelry to wine/tea cozies to felt paintings and dolls.

Needle felting is a popular fiber arts craft conducted without the use of water. Special barbed felting needles that are used in industrial felting machines are used as a sculpting tool. Using a single needle or a small group of needles (2-5) in a hand held tool, the needles are used to sculpt the wool fiber. The barbs catch the scales on the fiber and push them through the layers of wool tangling them and binding them together much like the wet felting process. Fine details can be achieved using this technique and it is popular for 3D felted work.

Felt is made by a process called wet felting, where the natural wool fiber is stimulated by friction and lubricated by moisture (usually soapy water), and the fibers move at a 90 degree angle towards the friction source[clarification needed] and then away again, in effect making little “tacking” stitches. Only 5% of the fibers are active at any one moment, but the process is continual, and so different ’sets’ of fibers become activated and then deactivated in the continual process.

This “wet” process utilizes the inherent nature of wool and other animal hairs, because the hairs have scales on them which are directional. The hairs also have kinks in them, and this combination of scales (like the structure of a pine cone) is what reacts to the stimulation of friction and causes the phenomenon of felting. It tends to work well with woolen fibers as their scales, when aggravated, bond together to form a clo

In both children and adults, handwork fosters creativity and confidence, allowing participants to formulate an idea and see it come to fruition by their own hands.

Gnome/Doll Felting Workshop

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Felt Poupee Workshop

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Felt Bead/Jewelry Workshop

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Wine/Tea Cozy Workshop

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Watercolor Painting

Larry — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:06:40 +0000

Unlike oil or acrylic painting, where the paints essentially stay where they are placed, watercolor painting is a much more fluid process, involving the application of pigments and their interaction within a watery medium. Utilizing a wet-on-wet approach, students will become familiar with how form flows into being and the effects of intermingling colors, creating landscapes of color exploration.

Wet-on-wet has a loosening and strengthening effect. In this method of painting, liquid pigment is applied to moistened paper. Water facilitates the movement and intermingling of the colours as they create new colours among themselves. Form flows into being, and can dissolve out of it again. The process remains fluid until we choose to stop and let it dry.

More information on watercolor painting:

http://www.lucianobalduino.it/paint.html

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Drawing

Larry — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:12:51 +0000

Drawing exercises train fine motor skills, develop hand/eye coordination and have a calming effect on the inner life. Black and white drawing exercises focus on line and form and the dynamic interplay of light and darkness. Pencil drawing, in particular, with its fine, clear line “sharpens” the intellect; our faculty of objective thinking.

Drawings using continuous, unbroken lines work with the fluid, formative qualities found in nature. When using broken lines we call upon the will and intellect. Studies in light, darkness and shadow speak more to our feelings.

One technique that we use is shaded drawing where light-infused forms are created by applying parallel, oblique pencil strokes, bringing darkness into the light with pencil on white paper. This technique is highly meditative and ego strengthening. Form Drawing with colored pencils calls on the inner intelligence hidden in each human being. In the form of a spiral we have all the directions of space contained in a movement – left-right, above-below, in-out, forward and back. Seeing such forms, the child senses these qualities; they relate him to the past and bring him into relationship with the true and beautiful.

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