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Title: Feathers, Fur, and Fluff: Painting Animal Textures with Stencils and Thickened Dye M/T Instructor: Margaret Peot
Description: In this workshop, participants will explore animal textures—such as feathers, fur, fluff, and even dragon scales—with thickened dye and stencils. Using precut animal outlines (if participants wish—they can of course make their own) as a starting point, painters can jump right into creating dimensional surfaces. Beginners will discover approachable methods for adding interesting textures to their work, while advanced painters can refine techniques to suggest realism or more stylized textures. Each participant will leave with a silk panel that reflects both technique and personal expression—perhaps even connecting with a “spirit animal” for added inspiration. Learning Objectives:• Explore the use of thickened dyes to create feather and fur texture • Practice stencil-based approaches that free participants from drawing pressure • Observe different animal reference to cut—and collect—the different textures needed to paint that animal’s coat. • Create a silk panel featuring an animal or animals with realistic or stylized textures.
MATERIALS PROVIDED: Provided: large foam core boards (approx. 30x49), Grafix Mylar, Spraymount, tape, stickers, pushpins, plates for palettes, and precut stencils. Paint kits will also be provided courtesy of Pintler Paints.
MATERIALS FEE (APPROX.)_$35
Students should bring: Participants bring: 1 yard of silk (any weight, but not textural—habitoi or broadcloth best), scissors, brushes, and an apron or protective clothing.
Instructor Bio: Margaret has written and illustrated several books for children and adults and is represented by Anna Olswanger at Olswanger Literary LLC. Her picture book The Science of Light (Holiday House 2022) was awarded a silver Orbis Pictus award for excellence in non-fiction children’s books, and Inkblot: Drip, Splat and Squish Your Way to Creativity (Boyds Mills 2011) was awarded a Eureka! Silver Medal for non-fiction children’s books. Her art-making-for-everyone book for adults, Make Your Mark: Explore Your Creativity and Discover Your Inner Artist (Chronicle Books, 2004), voted one of Library Journal’s best how-to books of 2004. Margaret paints and dyes costumes for the theater at Parsons-Meares, LTD. Shows she has worked on include Broadway shows such as Moulin Rouge, Wicked, Frozen, and The Lion King, among others., for dance; American Ballet Theater’s Peter and the Wolf, Joffrey Ballet’s Cotillon, Pilobolus, Feld Ballet’s Evo and Paper Tiger, among others. She is featured in the 2020 Routledge book Theater Artisans and Their Craft andSharon Powers’ book How Broadway Works (Applause 2023). Margaret is a member of United Scenic Artists, local 829. Margaret teaches fabric painting at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology) and Dyeing for the Theater at SUNY Purchase. She taught costume painting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts for ten years and has presented costume painting workshops at UNC, BYU, USITT-SE. She presents art workshops (inkblots, fabric painting, painting with stencils) with cancer survivors, elders, children, writers, nurses and caregivers, at The Creative Center at University Settlement’s Creative Aging conferences, and their Artist-in-Residence Training program, at Art Lab at Mount Sinai Hospital, Gilda’s Club, EngAGE Utah, The Huntsman Cancer Institute, Operation Exodus in NYC, and at Miami University’s Scripps center. Margaret was happy to teach two workshops and honored to be the keynote speaker at the 2024 SPIN Festival at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts.
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