Add bold, beautiful color to your quilts and fabric art with Derwent Inktense products!
Are you ready to take your fabric art to a whole new level? Whether you're a quilter, garment sewist, bag maker, or creative adventurer, this class will teach you to paint, shade and bring your fabric projects to life with Derwent Inktense pencils and blocks!
Think you need an art degree to paint on fabric? Think again. In this class, I'll show you how to turn plain and printed fabric into bold colorful masterpieces, step by simple step. No stress. No overwhelm. Just vibrant color and easy to follow techniques that make every project feel like magic.
In this self-paced class you'll:
- Use Derwent Inktense pencils and blocks to add rich color to quilted projects to created coloring book effects or manipulate printed fabric for creative control
- Create loose and formal watercolor effects for soft, painterly vibes by transforming Inktense into a workable, colorfast paintÂ
- Add dimension with texture rubbing and stenciling techniques for eye-catching details
- Blend and layer colors for bold, vibrant designs that truly pop while exploring how Inktense can be treated like a tint for pale, barely there, kisses of color
- Make your creations permanent and washable, so they last through years of love
Whether you love clean lines or expressive color washes, this class will help you confidently add artistic touches to quilts, clothing bags, wall hangings and more!
Tinted Washes
Explore a very loose wet on wet staining technique with Inktense, and add freemotion embroidery following one of the many flower patterns
Loose Watercolor
Use Inktense as a kind of watercolor paint and explore a wet on wet look with soft feathered edges
Crisp Painting
Transform Inktense into a gel paint on dry fabric for the controlled look of illustrative watercolor
You might be saying, "I can color quilts Bethanne, but no way can I paint! I'm not artistic!"
No worries! I have a lot of experience breaking down concepts step by step so you don't need to be!
All the painting experiments in class are taught using simple floral drawings, that you will trace with a Frixon pen. From there, you will try watercolor washes with embroidery details, loose paintings with soft feathered, watercolor-like qualities, and more formal hard edged paintings with high detail.
I have included 24 simple flower patterns you can turn into quilts, cards, pockets on bags, or anything your creativity comes up with. Then, if you want a bigger challenge, you can watch and copy the two big paintings in class (a macaw parrot and an octopus).
What's included?
- Lifetime access to four hours of pre-recorded video lessons which you can watch online anytime, anywhere when signed into Teachable
- 44 gorgeous patterns to play with, perfect for practicing and experimenting suited to all skill levels
- Close up demonstrations on quilts, clothing, and other fabric projects broken up into short, digestible 8-15 minute sessions
- Printable guides and supply lists so you feel prepared and supported
- Clear, easy to follow videos you can pause, rewind, and watch forever with 5+ closed caption languages (English, French, Spanish, German, and Portuguese, with other languages made available on request)
This isn’t a class you’ll “take once and forget". It’s a permanent creative resource you’ll return to again and again as your skills grow!
Check out the course curriculum below! You can preview the class supply list and the class project samples.
Full Curriculum
Color Quilting
Trace and quilt an elaborate original feather design or order a printed version
Color Prints
12 fruit and 4 sardine woodblock style print-at-home designs are ready for your creativity
Surface Design
Explore stenciling and rubbing as surface design in your projects
Paint A Vivid Parrot
For the adventurous, use an original design and paint a colorful macaw
Try A Playful Octopus
Inktense gel painting is not just for quilts and flat things, it is colorfast and is perfectly happy to live on your clothes too!