Contemporary Crochet Portraiture

Jo Hamilton

Take a new path to master the timeless art of portraiture using the versatile and unique medium of crochet. In this course I will be teaching a succession of techniques that I use in my own work in order to create an expressive crocheted portrait in yarn.

Workshop attendees will be basing their work on a printed image of their choice and learning to build a portrait row by row,beginning with the eyes and working out. I will demonstrate ways to examine the facial features in an image and break them down into their basic shapes and colours, so they can be translated into crochet. We will focus on completing one two-dimensional portrait during the course of the workshop.

Attendees should be proficient in basic crochet stitches, ie: single and double crochet in both rows and circles, increasing and decreasing. To put it simply: If you can crochet a granny square, you can crochet a face. I should mention that I do not provide a pattern to follow—since all faces are unique—and instead will be demonstrating a more freeform and expressive approach.

Workshop attendees will

• Learn a hands-on approach to crocheting a portrait of their choice by demonstration, inspiration, and good old trial-and-error.

• Learn how to render different facial features and expressions using colour, tone and a variety of crochet techniques

• Experiment with less traditional techniques to create colour, texture, depth and character in their work, such as mixing yarns to create subtlety in shading.

• Explore a number of approaches to adapting a printed image for use as a basis for crochet art.

Student Requirement List


Class Fee

$720

PLUS ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:

Residential Shared Residential Single Non-residential

$840 $945 $365

*Please note all meals are included for residential participants.

Only lunch & morning/afternoon tea included for non-residential participants

All prices include access to talks, activities and dinner on Party Night*

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Scottish artist Jo Hamilton moved to Portland, Oregon in the early 1990s, after receiving her BFA in painting from the Glasgow School of Art.

Her technique combines years of fine art practice with the craft of crochet which she learned as a child from her Gran, rendering traditional categories (portraiture, landscape, nudes) in a contemporary light. Her work has been widely shown in the U.S. as well as in China, Paris, Berlin and Stockholm, and belongs to museums and private collections in the US and worldwide.

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