FALL 09 Course Descriptions

****Please be aware that the images provided are simply examples (except in the case of the Beginner Class).  You can bring your own design or contact your teacher for a suitable design that inspires you.**** 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Picture This with Jon Ciemiewicz

Level: 1 year experience

 

The creation of a rug for this course is to be

based on a favourite picture i.e. your house,

a vacation scene, your grand-child, or a

fantastic sunset.  The course of instruction is applicable, in any size cut, to anyone who has been hooking for about a year and who has completed at least 1 or 2 rugs.  You may have Jon draw your pattern based on a provided photograph or draw your own.

This 5-day course of instruction will include lectures on how to create realistic water, rocks and trees, the effective use of the color wheel and incorporation of colors outside of the box, how to hook a realistic human face, the essentials of shading and perspective, and simple dyeing techniques.

Instructor

Jon has been hooking rugs for the past 13 years and teaching for the last 8 years throughout the USA and Canada.  His favourite subjects to hook are wild animals and Native Americans.  Some of his rugs have been selected for inclusion in CELEBRATIONS; others have been displayed in juried museum shows and still others have been honoured by people’s choice awards in rug shows. 

 

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Primitive Fruits & Flowers with Cherylyn Brubaker

Level: All welcome

 

Flowers and fruit have always been favoured by rug hookers as design elements.  If you have been putting off hooking your favourite primitive fruit or flower pattern, this is the course for you!  In this class we will be hooking with wider cuts, using textured hand-dyed and as-is recycled wool to create an antique looking mat.  Gradation swatches are not necessary!  Instruction will include strategies for hooking varieties of fruit as well as ideas for hooking

padulas and flowers.  Absolute realism is not a course goal!  Discussions in colour planning, multi-cuts, hooking plaids and textures as well as finishing ideas are planned.  Your pattern should include either flowers and/or fruit somewhere in the design.  A commercial pattern or your own design printed on a primitive backing is fine.  Plan to work in a #6 cut and up, although smaller details may require a multi-cut approach.

 

Instructor

Cherylyn Brubaker is a former graphic designer with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from University of Conneticut.  Cherylyn owns “Hooked Treasures” in Brunswick, ME.  She is an accredited member of the RHGNS, Teachers’ Branch and her hooked pieces have appeared in ATHA, Rug Hooking Magazine, Celebration X and XVII, and at the Centre for Maine Contemporary Art.  Visit her website at: www.hooked treasurers.com

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Sensational Sea Scenes and Skies/Special Memories with Barb Leduc

Level: Intermediate

 

In this class you will have a choice as to what you want to learn to hook:

1) Rough seas, waves, seabirds, outports, rocks, lighthouses, etc.

2) Calm seas, sun, sand, people, palm trees, beach activities, southern vacation

3) Miniatures (5” x 7”) pictures taken from places visited with family or friends.  Cherished memories that make special gifts.

In this class we will also be ‘painting your sky’ for those who want to experience this technique of dyeing.  Bring your own pattern, along with all your hooking needs.  Fine or

mixed cuts can be used.  Bring your bag of left over wool from other projects.  We’ll find a spot for them!  Come enjoy the fun!

 

Instructor

Barb Leduc has been a certified teacher with the Rug Hooking Guild of Nova Scotia since May 2001 and a certified McGown teacher since August 2008.  She has attended the rug schools for the past 10 years and has taught a variety of courses at school over the past five years.

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Fine Shading of Flowers and Animals with Pam Chase

 Level: All welcome

 

 

We are going to discuss the formation of flowers—how one looks at and dissects each of the petals before we start hooking.  I have a technique of looking at flowers and animals.  Once I have instructed you in this technique, you will have a new perspective that will help you in  your hooking.  My method will save time and work when following my instructions.  The simple 2-D drawing on a foundation acts as a road map to suggest the direction to follow with a colour plan.  It makes the flowers quite realistic!  As for the animals’ faces or facial features, there is a technique of setting

these up too.  Once you have learned these, you will never be afraid of attempting a face of any kind.  Students will be using 6,8, or 10 value swatches for the final shading.  You will receive a workbook to use as a resource.  Students may bring their own pattern of arrange for one designed by Pam Chase.

 

Instructor

Pam Chase learned hooking from her great-grandmother.  With a degree in art from U of Maine, she is a McGown certified teacher, and a member of the RHGNS Teachers’ Branch.  She has been teaching for 35 years throughout the USA.  She has written several books and manuals on rug hooking as well as a design catalogue of her patterns.  Pam also runs her own business, “The Niche in the Nook” in Farmington, Maine. 

 

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Dye and Apply with Barbie Baker-Dykens

Level: Intermediate

 

Have you ever wondered where to start when you have a new rug pattern to hook?  Progressing through a new project with a Dye and Apply course is for those rug hookers who have completed the Basic Dyeing Techniques and basic Colour Theory course or have had some dyeing experience and would like to apply their knowledge along with some new techniques to a project of their own choice.  Students will be asked to bring new and recycled wool to dye for their chosen project.  Colour planning and applying various dyeing techniques will be the focus of this course

followed by implementing their hooking skills into starting their chosen project.

 

Instructor

Barbie is a Nova Scotia craftsperson, artist, teacher, author and publisher from East Dalhousie, Kings County.  A 1970 graduate student of the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Barbie has pursued an art career in weaving, leather, painting and rug hooking.  Her work has been displayed in several Art Galleries and Shops across Canada.  Teaching these art forms to students in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Ontario over the last twenty years has brought her much joy.  Last, but not least Barbie has written and published twelve books of instruction on basic dyeing, techniques and colour theory for rug hookers, spinners, weavers and knitters.  She is an accredited teacher of the Teachers’ Branch of the Rug Hooking Guild of Nova Scotia and was a Teacher in Art Instruction of Nova Scotia.  For those interested Barbie has her own website showing her books and the variety of results obtained with her creative dyeing.

 

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Exploring Orientals with Iris Simpson

Level: All welcome

 

Bring a touch of the East into your home by hooking an Oriental style rug, pillow or wall-hanging.  You may work in any style, e.g. Persian, Caucasian, Chinese, Kilim, Azeri all of which will be discussed in class.  You may use fine or wide cuts or a combination.  We will look at varying the outline colours or motifs and use of textured wools.  You may use a commercial pattern or design your own. 

 

 

 

Instructor

Iris Simpson, an educator by trade and a hooker by choice, loves hooking and teaching at schools and workshops in Canada, the Uis an accredited teacher through the Ontario Hooking Craft Guild and England.  She is an OHCG member and a McGown certified teacher and holds a Fibre Arts Certificate from St. Lawrence College.

 

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Jacobean Crewel with Doris Norman

Level: Intermediate

 

“Fun and Fantasy with Jacobean/Crewel” - Jacobean designs are a delight to colour plan and hook.  We will use our imaginations to put dabs of colour on large, fanciful flowers, leaves and animals, while immersing ourselves in the history of these marvellous creations.  Cuts from #3 to #8 may be used to hook the designs, subject to the intricacy of motifs and weave of the backing.  Crewel stitches will be taught and may be incorporated into some of the designs.  Students may compose a design, dye their wool, purchase supplies from

Doris or from a vendor.  A list of copyright free pattern books and formulas will be sent to the students.  Some rug hooking experience is necessary.

 

Instructor

Doris Norman is a skilled artisan and instructor who teaches rug hooking courses at schools and workshops across the US and Canada.  She is an accredited Nova Scotia and Pearl McGown Teacher, specializing in Celtic Art, William Morris, Jacobean, Pictorial, Stained Glass, Primitive Fruit and Shading.  Her work has been featured in Canadian Living magazine, Rug Hooking magazine and is included in the Beaverbrook Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection as well as other private collections.

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