As a fabric lover, I have a question: Is there a Fabric Design in you that’s just waiting to come out? Now that might feel like it’s coming out of the blue, so let me ask a couple of other questions. Do you scour through your fabric stash looking for a piece that is “just right” […]
Design Magic Art: What will you make?
Last week, someone interested in the new Design Magic online course sent a couple of great questions. The writer said something to the effect of “Well, this design thing is easy for you – you wrote the book! What about us ‘non-designers’ out here?” She then asked, “what will we do with our fabric?” First […]
Let’s Make Design Magic!
Are you ready for a new fabric art adventure? Are you ready to banish the “I can’t find the right fabric” blues? Then step right up, and let’s make some Design Magic! Before we jump into any of the details, let me say this: The Design Magic course will turn you into a designer – […]
Design Magic: Round 3
In the late 1990s, I took an Art Cloth seminar with Jane Dunnewold that included an introduction to Notan. Notan is a Japanese design principle that we use all the time – the interaction of positive and negative space – but the term is not widely known outside the art education world. The lesson from […]
BYO Batik: A Renegade Stencil Experiment
With time set aside for experiments with Renegade Stencils during my retreat, I decided it was time for some BYOB. In case you’re feeling like you’ve encountered yet another strange word in the “Shelly Dictionary,” BYOB stands for Build Your Own Batik. We’ll save the bottled spirits for another time! Build your own Batik fabric […]
Design Magic in Chapala: From Fountain Tiles to Fabric
Design Magic is the title of a book that I wrote in 2010. It’s a methodology for creating a design using a square of paper, turning the design into a pair of positive and negative (equal and opposite) stencils, and adding the pattern to fabric with Shiva Artist’s Paintstiks. The process described in the book […]
Shelly’s Designs Day 25 – 30
by Shelly Stokes, Founder and Creative Mentor Tuesday was the final day of our 30 Designs in 30 Days adventure. It felt like a marathon at times, but we made it! I was about 15 days ahead of the group when we started, but I will be honest. Between keeping up with the group and […]
Shelly’s Designs Day 17-24
by Shelly Stokes, Founder and Creative Mentor When 157 people signed up for my 30 Designs in 30 Days course, I was not sure if I was the luckiest lady in the world or just plum crazy! Would I really be able to keep up with such a large group? And, would the course spark […]
Shelly’s Designs Day 9-16
by Shelly Stokes, Founder and Creative Mentor My 30 Designs in 30 Days group is keeping me hopping, but I want to keep my promise to post my designs. Here are the next batch of my personal designs for Days 9-16. Day 9 – Fun With Flowers: Create a design with one or more shapes […]
Shelly’s First Five Designs
by Shelly Stokes, Founder and Creative Mentor We are one week into the 30 Days of Design Magic program, and I promised to post all of my designs. And there is so much going on with the class that I am way behind (as usual). Here are the first 5 designs that I did for […]
Keeping a 30 Days of Design Magic Studio Journal
by Shelly Stokes, Founder and Creative Mentor When I started my 30 Days of Design Magic, it became clear rather quickly that I needed two things: A way to keep track of all 30 designs and the associated exercises, and A place where I could make notes and doodle about possible follow-up designs. I have […]
Become A Fabric Designer In 30 Days Or Less?
by Shelly Stokes, Founder and Creative Mentor If you can cut shapes from a square of black paper, you can design your own personal fabric prints! Yes, I am talking to you! Don’t believe me? Then you have not tried out the nifty method for designing repeating patterns in Design Magic For Paintstik On Fabric. […]
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