Pearl
Moon –
Newcastle, New South
Wales, Australia
e-mail: moondoll@nelsonbay.com
Class Description
The
focus of this class
will be on drawing
from the textile
arts to learn a
range of techniques
designed to help
you create your
own beautiful and
uniquely original
dolls that are a
true expression
of your creativity.
Starting with a
basic doll shape
and a molded face,
Pearl Moon will
teach a number of
surface design techniques
drawn from her years
of experience as
a textile artist.
Venita is a 50cm.
(18”) mixed
media figure. The
body is armatured,
fixed to the stand
and constructed
by a combination
of wrapping and
stuffing techniques.
The face is polymer
clay and the whole
figure will be covered
in cloth. The emphasis
in this class will
be on hand embellishment
techniques for decorating
the figure and free
form methods of
embroidery, smocking,
beading, wrapping
and creating complex
textiles will be
explored. This class
will not require
a sewing machine
or any knowledge
of embroidery or
beading.
Pearl
Moon describes
herself as a multi
media decorative
artist who works
primarily with textiles
and stitch. Over
30 years her main
art obsessions have
revolved around
wearable art and
sculptural forms.
Over the last decade
she has been creating
mainly adornments
and dolls. What
unites it all and
remains consistent
in her art is her
use of textiles,
beads and stitch.
Her work has been
featured in "Australian
Dolls, Bears and
Collectables"
(Vol 4, #7,
2001) and
"Textile Fibre
Forum" (Vol
22, issue 2, #70,
2003) and
“New Directions
in Altered Books”
(Gabe Cyr,
2006, p131) and
“Cloth, Paper,
Scissors”
(Winter 2004, p86
and January/February
2008, issue 16,
p77). In the last
12 years she has
taught many classes
in Australia, Tasmania,
New Zealand and
the USA. In 2003
she was an exhibitor
at the Santa Fe
Art Doll Show in
New Mexico, USA.
Her dolls and jewellery
art are in private
collections worldwide.
Pearl has always
identified as a
textile artist rather
than a "dollmaker”
and describes her
cloth figurines
as "embellished
textiles displayed
on pillars which
allude to the human
figure". This
will be Pearl Moon’s
first time to teach
in Canada.
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Pearl
Moon –
Newcastle, New South
Wales, Australia
e-mail:
moondoll@nelsonbay.com
Class
Description
The class involves
the creation of
the book cover only,
though brief instructions
and patterns/diagrams
for
finishing completing
the book and creating
and inserting the
pages will be provided.
No prior experience
in beading, embroidery
or painting is needed.
The project consists
of a face and some
textured polymer
clay tiles which
are mounted on the
cloth cover then
embellished with
painting, beadwork
and embroidery.
The dimensions of
the front closed
measure 22cm x 13cm
(8 3/4 x 5").
Instructor’s
Personal Gallery
(all
images used on this
page are the copyrighted
material of Pearl
Moon and are used
with her permission)
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