Workshop & Instructor Information

Lura Schwarz Smith

Inks, Paints, Pencils, and Fabric

April 3 - 9, 2011

5-Day Workshop

All Levels

Inks, Paints, Pencils, and Fabric

Working with images of your choice, produce a small art quilt top from your own photographs or drawings while learning to draft distorted traditional blocks, and construct textures with a free-form paperless curved piecing technique.

Experience various paints, inks, materials and ways to play with imagery. Design and composition exercises are explored, as well as the opportunity for in-depth shading and drawing assistance in rendering images on fabric. Samples of digital photographic fabric will be provided, or bring your own, to enhance with art materials. Emphasis is on individual applications of techniques, and the fun of  developing your own style.

Lura Schwarz Smith, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art from San Francisco State University, has been producing textile art for over 30 years. Before that, she was making very bad traditional bed quilts with her first quilting partner, her mother, starting in the 1960s. Originally showing in galleries in the 70s and 80s, for the past years she has been showing quilts and receiving awards at regional, national, and international quilt shows. Several highlights of her career in the quilt world over the past decade are that one of her quilts was named one of the "100 Best American Quilts of the 20th Century," and she was included in the "30 Distinguished Quilt Artists of the World" exhibit at the first Tokyo Dome quilt show in 2002

Special Offer: Lura's workshop is immediately preceeded by her husband, Kerby Smith's workshop where you'll learn how use your digital camera and Photoshop Elements to create custom images to print on fabric (digital prints on fabric that you can use in Lura's workshop), as well as a lot more. If you also sign up for Kerby's workshop, you'll get the between night (Saturday, April 2) at the inn for free and $100 off the tuition for Lura's workshop!