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Desiree D Habicht
I am a multi-media artist and designer. I help people find their creative voice while making beautiful things. I love to create art using fiber, paint, pastels, or mixed media. I am also the owner of Desiree's Designs were we design fabric, patterns, embroidery as well as teach. Its about the creative process for me. Whether I am teaching art, design, fiber art or teaching our projects from Desiree's Designs, my creative goal is to help you build a strong foundation and help your confidence and talent grow. There is nothing better than creating something special using your own ideas and talents. I can't wait to learn more about you in class. Find me at desireesdesigns.com and my fine art at desireehabicht.com
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About this course
Hi it's Desiree! Let me tell you a bit about me. I am a professional artist, an art lover, a working artist , a fiber artist, a designer, a fabric designer, a pattern designer, a teacher and an entrepreneur and I have a dream and a vision to create a very special artist community. I love everything creative and artsy. I not only teach fine art but I love fiber art as well. When you have a creative spirit is over flows to every area of your life! This is how many of my art quilt have evolved, it comes from my art supplies being in the same room as my sewing supplies! I love to mix it up, think outside the box! My art quilts have won many awards, been featured in magazines and books, and are owned by both commercial and private collectors if you would like to see more please visit my art website at www.desireehabicht.com.
I am excited to have you in class and I can't wait to see what wonderful ways you can use this great technique to enhance your quilts and create new pieces of fiber art!
In this online class we will be creating a Fall Leaf fiber art piece. You can make it any size you like but I suggest you start out small and then work your way up. You can use it as a regular quilt block and sew it into another piece or finish it off and hang it. What ever you decide it is a wonderful introduction to my Art Applique technique. This is the same technique that I featured on Quilting Arts TV and in their magazine in 2015.
Each Lesson is broken out into bite sized pieces with written instructions, downloadable PDF templates, videos, and more. I will walk you through coloring each leaf and the background. I will also show you other ways to use colored pencils to enhance your other quilts or art pieces.
Awesome things you will learn in this lesson:
- Choosing colors
- Making a template
- How to apply your pencils
- How to apply the textile medium
- Blending
- Creating a light source
- Saving Highlights
- Shading
- Creating realism and depth
- Details
- Creating Texture
- Marblizing
- and more!!
Once you are finished this piece is colorfast and washable. The whole lesson is available to you all at once so you are free to go through the entire lesson in one sitting or do a lesson a day. It is up to you, you watch and complete the lessons at your convenience. You will also have access to this class forever as it will be stored here so bookmark the site.
I teach this technique and more techniques at shows and I will be adding other online classes for different projects pieces I am working on. Please check out my Pre-Stitched blocks and here for coloring on my website at www.desireesdesigns.com. I also have an Embroidery CD coming out at the end of June that will have over a dozen of my own special designs for you to color.
