Susie Monday

Artist, maker, teacher, author, head cook and bottlewasher.

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The art I make is the result of a life-long love of pattern, texture and color. How I teach is a skill honed by experience (I started teaching creative arts to younger kids when I was 12). After earning a B.A. in Studio Arts from Trinity University, I helped lead an internationally recognized educational foundation, designed curriculum exhibits for schools and other institutions, wrote and edited for a major daily newspaper, opened the San Antonio Children's Museum and then, a dozen years ago, took the scary but essential (for me) leap to become a fulltime artist and art teacher.

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    Thursday
    Apr082010

    Live, on a screen near you!

    DateThursday, April 8, 2010 at 07:44AM

    

    MIXED MEDIA TEXTILE ARTS!

    The Quilting Arts people launched my video workshop this week. Take a peek. Buy it now! I am so jazzed to see this, especially since I thought I was really lame in the first part of the taping, but they know how to edit a segment...

    Here's what the newsletter says:


    Mixed-Media Textile Art Workshop DVD Available Now!

    Be among the first to take Susie Monday's new workshop!  Mixed-Media Textile Art, the newest of our Cloth Paper Scissors Workshop™ DVDs, is now available. Get ready to take your mixed-media textile art to the next level with Susie's masterful demonstrations.  At your own convenience and in the comfort of your own home or studio, you can explore new techniques and enhance your design skills.

     

    You can order from Interweave in the link below, or wait til I get wholesale copies that I can autograph and personalize for your library -- and I'll include a few pdf downloadable related lessons, too!

     

    Mixed-Media Textile Art (DVD)

     

    And while you're shopping, you might want to take a look at Jane Dunnewald's new DVD on screenprinting. It's a perfect complement to my DVD if you don't know anything about prepping a screen or making your own -- even this preview will get you started!

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    Congratulations! Your video tutorial looks amazing!
    April 8, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterAlyice Edrich
    Susie, You look great on tape. Like your hair, too. I thought the preview was very enticing to want to buy a DVD, and so colorful. It's always fascinating just to watch you draw freehand. Liked the tip about buying children's water soluble crayons.
    April 8, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterRobin
    Wow Susie! Congratulations! You are such a good teacher, I think these DVDs are the next best thing to being there..
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    April 8, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterSue Cooke
    Way to go Susie, video looks great- I want an autographed copy!
    April 9, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterLinda Rael
    Good on you, Susie!!!!! What you show us is wonderful and I am going to order this DVD. I have worked with the water color crayons in the past and love what you bring to them. Excitement and a new point of view. You go, Girl!
    April 9, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterLindaD awson
    Hello Susie,

    I watched your Mixed-Media Textile Art DVD last night (I purchased it from Interweave) and was thoroughly impressed! You did an excellent job and all the little comments you made while you were creating the art quilt were very helpful. I will give you a 10 (based on 0-10 scoring) on this one! I am also considering buying Jane Dunnewald's DVD, because as you mentioned above, the two DVDs go hand in hand.

    I highly recommend this DVD to all of you! Besides the greatness of the workshop, Susie appears to be a lovely person!

    Oh yes, and I agree with Robin - the tip about the childrens' water soluble crayons was a helpful one for me. I don't have a lot of money to spare, although I have heard that Inktense Pencils are lovely. I'll have to save up for a set of those. In the meantime, I'm heading to Kmart to buy some water soluble crayons.

    Thank you so much for sharing your techniques with those of us who are stuck in the middle of nowhere (not that I don't love where I live) and don't have a lot of opportunity to travel to workshops.

    Jan from Wyoming
    April 28, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterJan from Wyoming
    Hi, i just watched your DVD that I downloaded from Quilting Arts and I am ready to make a house quilt. I did a pause trying to capture an image so I could judge the size of the house. Could you share a good working measurement so that I can put my hubby to work.
    Thanks
    Ann
    May 5, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterAnn Morrell
    THANKS everyone for the kind comments. I hope to do more DVD workshops in the future.
    July 9, 2010 | Registered CommenterSusie Monday

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