SCHG January 2006:
The Southern California Handweavers' Guild presents
Color! for Textile Artists
with Karen Leckart

Saturday, January 14, 2006

Location: Los Angeles Valley College, 5800 Fulton Ave, Valley Glen
Room 101 in the Physics building (Directions)
General Meeting and Program Time: 10:00 a.m.

SCHG members and color mavens Karen Leckart and Deanna Deeds will be leading us through an exploration of color in January’s program and two color workshops.

Saturday Morning Program with Karen Leckart

Karen Leckart will provide an overview of color theory for weavers, and she’ll lead us through some exercises to warm up our color vision. This is for FUN so come with a humorous attitude!

Saturday Afternoon Workshop: Theories, tools, training & textiles

This workshop will build on the lecture and exercises done in the morning program. We will focus on SEEING COLORS. The more you practice seeing, the more you can decide on what your individual palette may be for your textile. Several exercises have been designed to get you into a color-sighting mood. What colors “live best” with others and how to realize each color’s best qualities? How do you use a color wheel to its best advantage? We will discuss color “rules “and how we can break them with success. We will build a gallery of your own textiles. Discussions of whether or not we were successful in our color choices and how they may have been made more stimulating will take place in a light and humorous environment. You will be encouraged to make your own sampler notebook for reference to help with future projects, or to use as a jumping-off point to further studies.

Karen’s Saturday “4 Ts” workshop is limited to 16 participants. Contact her to reserve your space ASAP! (Participants should bring scissors, glue stick and a color card if you already have one.

Karen Leckart has been a weaver since 1960 when she first saw a loom at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. “It was love and curiosity at first sight. Also only one other person in my class was really interested in weaving which was a required class.” After completing and with entrée into the fashion industry, she worked as a textile designer in the garment center. She has worked in Los Angeles as a stylist of imported printed textiles. Karen is actively involved in the Southern California Handweavers Guild and Seaside Weavers.

Sunday Workshop: Color for Spinners with Deanna Deeds

A workshop for the spinners among us! This class will build on the lecture and exercises done on Saturday. In this semi-structured environment you will use the Color Star or similar tools to help you choose and personalize your samples. Starting from fleece dyed in a palette of primary and secondary colors, we will work through a series of exercises, experimenting with combinations and mixtures to form beautiful heathered and multicolored yarns. We will explore multiple levels of tints, tones, shades, analogous intensifications, modulations, chromatic greys and more. We will examine the effects on the appearance of the yarn due to varying degree of blend as well as plying. When you are through, you will have a personalized sampler notebook for reference to help in future projects, or to use as a jumping-off point to further studies. Spinning proficiency level: Beginners and up. It’s all about the color in this class; you just need to be able to get a singles yarn to hold together. A nonspinner (felter?) could even take the class and leave the samples “in the fluff” if desired. Registration form is in the December Tie-up.

Deanna Deeds has been spinning and weaving since the late 1980s. She was “hooked” by the early issues of Threads magazine, and studied independently with books until 1994 when she attended her first Spin-Off Autumn Retreat (SOAR). At that retreat she took her first workshop - the one that this class is based upon!

General program questions can be directed to the Program Committee. We hope to see you at the January meeting!

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