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Mapping Personal Places

Name: Mapping Personal Places
Brand: Creative Spark
SKU: CS0024
Price: 69.99 USD
Availability: InStock

Valerie Goodwin

Transform the places you love! Learn how to use fabric, paint, and thread to make your own beautiful fiber art map. Have fun learning collage and mixed media art processes to add to your arsenal of techniques.

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100 Minutes

Ability Level: Adventurous Beginner

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Quilt the Places You Love

At first glance, award-winning artist Valerie Goodwin’s quilts are stunning for the intricacy of their lines which create complex shapes and designs. Closer inspection slowly reveals these patterns are city blocks and urban landscapes captured from an aerial perspective. Drawing inspiration from architectural maps, plans, and blueprints, Goodwin’s combined love for architecture and art is evident through the detail and care in her works.

Transform the places you love—and places you’ve always imagined or wanted to see—into one-of-a-kind pieces of art. Valerie shows you how to make quilted maps with easy fabric collage techniques and innovative designs based on maps of your favorite places. She guides you through finding inspiration in real and imaginary sites, selecting a color palette, transforming a place's essential lines and shapes into quilt designs, creating luminous textures with fabric layering, paints, stamps, stencils, drawing, free-motion stitching, and appliqué. This course is packed full of various techniques you can use to create your own Art Quilt Map.

What you will learn

How to Select and Design Your Map & Tricks for Color Selection – Learn how to choose the right map and use color to bring it to life.
Unique Fabric Piecing for an Intriguing Background – Discover a creative way to piece fabric together to form a dynamic surface for your map.
Techniques for Creating Map Elements – Master the art of making trees, shrubbery, and organic elements to enhance the natural feel of your special place.
The Secret Ingredient: Sheer Fabrics – Valerie reveals how to use sheers to achieve a stunning watercolor-like effect. Learn how to prepare and select the right sheer fabrics.
Gallery of Art Quilt Map Inspiration – Explore a collection of inspiring quilted maps to spark your creativity.
Includes access to course videos, downloads, the Creative Spark private community, and discussion with your instructor. Your course content does not expire.

Bonuses

+ FREE Art Quilt Maps eBook includes a fully illustrated guide as well as a large photo gallery of quilt maps by Valerie and her students ($19.99 value)

+ Tips and tricks to finding maps of your favorite spaces at just a click of the mouse

Course Curriculum

WELCOME TO THE WORKSHOP!
2 Videos 1 Text 1 Download

LET'S GET READY
1 Video

PREP WORK
3 Videos

CREATING THE EARTH'S SURFACE
1 Video

CREATING LAYERS
5 Videos

PUTTING IT ON THE MAP
4 Videos

FINISHING TOUCHES
4 Videos

EPILOGUE
2 Videos 1 Text

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Valerie S. Goodwin

Valerie S. Goodwin received degrees in architecture from Washington University in St. Louis and Yale University. She lives in Tallahassee, Florida, and teaches architectural design at Florida A&M University. Valerie has a studio space in a popular warehouse area for artists near the campus where she teaches. She became very interested in designing and making quilts in 1998 as an outgrowth of her architectural background. The pursuit began as part of an investigation in the design classes that she