Inspired Velvet with Angie Hughes, by Colouricious, price 17.99 available from www.beckmanndirect.com
Angie has a definite style and works with velvet, paints and stabilisers to produce unique works of art. She shows so many techniques in her layered textiles. Use paints, foils, sweet paper foils and organza to create depth in your work. Every process is [...]
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Velvet DVD with Angie Hughes
Recycled Reborn DVD with Colouricious
Inspired Recycled Reborn DVD by Colouricious, price 17.99 available from www.beackmanndirect.com
The team at Coloricious, together with Marilyn Pipe must have had great fun making this DVD. It includes many ways to make old, worn out fabrics into something new. It demonstrates various techniques to dye, burn, stitch and so on. I love Marilyn’s rag bags [...]
Textile Techniques DVD with Marilyn Pipe
Inspired Textile Techniques DVD with Marilyn Pipe, published by Colouricious, price 17.99 available from www.beckmanndirect.com
This is a brilliant introduction to many textile techniques including rusting fabric, using recycled fabric, distressing and layering. Each technique is demonstrated and examples shown. Suggestions are given for using the techniques. I really enjoyed this and would recommend this DVD [...]
Block Printing DVD with Jamie Malden
Inspired Block Printing DVD with Jamie Malden, published by Coloricious. Price 17.96 available from www.beckmanndirect.com
This one hour long DVD slowly takes you through a structured approach to block printing with pre-made blocks. The printing is mainly done on top of commercial fabrics although there is some mention of creating serendipity fabrics – wiping your hands [...]
Drawing Lifelike Portraits with Lee Hammond DVD
Drawing Lifelike Portraits with Lee Hammond DVD, published by North Light in the USA. Available in the UK, price 16.99 from www.davidandcharles.co.uk
This is a very useful DVD. Having done an art course at my local college, I knew little more, if anything, than when I started. I had so wanted to get to grips with tone. [...]