LISA GORSKI
WORKSHOPS

HOME PORTRAIT WORKSHOP

Would you like to create a memory like no other?
I will take you through the steps of creating a portrait of your home just like the commissioned artworks that I am known for.
You will use your own ephemera and photographs, and transform them into a meaningful and special artwork. 
You’ll need high-resolution photos of the outside of your home and some details.
Awesome ephemera, be it hankies, upholstery fabric or wallpaper samples, a deed, a map of the neighborhood or a local park, a copy of the local paper, a photo of beloved people, a treasured recipe copy, pennant from a favorite team, a wrapper from a special treat, or a coaster from a fave restaurant. You get the idea!
You’ll spend three days transforming your ephemera and your photographs into a 12"x12” portrait. You will brainstorm, play, plot and envision. You will collage, thread paint and hand stitch. And I will guide you every step of the way.

Some techniques and skills you will learn:

• How to create an enticing composition

• Collage tips for unusual materials

• Stitching paper, dryer sheets, photographs, and more!

• Machine thread sketching

• Hand stitching and basic embroidery

• Photoshops tricks!

SUPPLY LIST: Ephemera (some suggestions)

• Deeds, maps and articles can show your home's past.

• Wallpaper bits, upholstery samples, notes and construction documents can be used to suggest an important renovation or decorating project.

• Ribbons, napkins, and recipe cards will help commemorate family gatherings and outings.

• Postcards, passport pages, and ticket stubs can bring travel and outing memories alive.

• Bits from articles of clothing, photographs, photos can be a remembrance of a life well-lived.
   

• Birth announcements, speeches, veils, and baby socks can help record significant life events.

• Some fun bits like candy wrappers, dryer sheets, color catcher sheets and gift wrap.

• Single-use plastic bags with significant to you graphics, tea bags and packaging.

• Several high resolution photos of your home or a favorite place printed out on plain paper 8 1/2x11

• Tracing paper, pencil and thin black Sharpie marker

• Ruler

• Pellon 70 interfacing (one yard)

• Two or three pieces of neutral fabric (about the size of a fat quarter)

• Misty Fuse or other favorite lightweight fusible (one yard)

• A variety of machine stitching threads and needles

• A variety of hand stitching threads and needles

• Fabric scissors

• Paper scissors/craft scissors

• Embroidery scissors

• Thimble and other finger protection

• Optional:

• 12”x12” stretched canvas

• Two or three small tubes of acrylic paint (preferably heavy body, and in your favorite colors)

• Laptop with Photoshop Elements installed

• Dates:
  Saturday January 20. 27 and February 3
  
  Time: 9:00 to 4:00 with 1 hour break for lunch  
  
  Place: Zoom
  
  Link will be sent to those signed up  prior to the start of classes 

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