Lisa Call – Textile Paintings

Trying Something New – Snow Dyeing Fabric

April 20, 2013

Snow Dyed Fabric Snow Dyeing All winter I have been wanting to try out snow dyeing fabric but never seemed to make the time. Near the end of March I figured I had missed my chance but mother nature has been most cooperative and we’ve had 3 or 4 good snowstorms in April giving me [...]

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ACC Baltimore 2013 – What I Learned – Marketing Materials

April 18, 2013

Structures #147 ©2005 Lisa Call 53 x 67 inches Fabric, dye, thread, batting What Size? Continuing with my review of the American Craft Council Show in Baltimore last February, today I want to discuss marketing materials. I made the decision to go with business card to hand out to people in my booth – this [...]

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Blue Lines – A Collection of Small Textile Paintings

April 13, 2013

Lines #64 – Lines #79 ©2012 Lisa Call 3″ x 3″ each Textile Painting (fabric, dye, thread, batting) On stretched canvas Finished size 5 x 5″ each More Small Textile Paintings Blue was the focus for this grouping of small textile paintings. Accents of cool browns and warm orange and yellow spice up the collection. [...]

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ACC Baltimore 2013 – What I Learned – The Story

April 12, 2013

The Booth The Logistics This post is the second in a series of post exhibit reviews about the American Craft Council show in Baltimore last February. I want dive into the lessons I learned in this next group of articles. As this was the first time I have ever set up a booth, I spent [...]

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From the Studio – New Saturday Updates

April 6, 2013

Lines #48 – Lines #63 ©2012 Lisa Call 3″ x 3″ each Textile Painting (fabric, dye, thread, batting) On stretched canvas Finished size 5 x 5″ each Studio Updates In an attempt to bring more structure to my blogging, I am starting a new feature – a weekly update from my studio on Saturday mornings. [...]

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ACC Baltimore 2013 – Will I Do it Again?

April 4, 2013

Sitting in my Booth The Delay In January and February I wrote quite a bit about preparing for my first ever trade show – the American Craft Council wholesale and retail show in Baltimore, Maryland. Once in Baltimore I wrote about setup (here and here) and booth tear down. But I kinda skipped the middle [...]

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And the Winner is…..

April 2, 2013

Portals #9 ©2013 Lisa Call 12 x 12 inches Fabric, paint, thread, batting Mounted on Stretched Canvas $475 Welcome to the Workshop Turns out I was unable to select just 1 winner for a free online workshop because I wanted to give everyone a free class. It was too hard to pick 1! So I [...]

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My Newest Textile Painting: Structures #147

March 28, 2013

Structures #147 ©2013 Lisa Call 12 x 12 inches Fabric, dye, thread, batting Mounted on Stretched Canvas $475 Available at The Store at Contemporary Craft Studio Update March has been an interesting month. Getting home from Baltimore and diving right back into teaching to wrap up 2 online workshops was pretty intense. I ended up [...]

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Would You Like to Take one of my Workshops for Free?

March 14, 2013

My Offer One of the todos on my list this year was to set up some sort of scholarship for my online workshops. I’ve thought about it off and on and couldn’t settle upon a structure. Then along came a post on the Art of Non-Conformity and Chris’s social experiment suggesting we all give away [...]

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ACC Baltimore – Teardown

February 25, 2013

What Goes Up, Must Come Down The Show is Over Sunday evening at 5:00pm the gong rang and the Baltimore American Craft Council show came to an end for 665 fine craft vendors. Within minutes the 5 huge halls of the convention center became a beehive of crazy tear down activity as all traces of [...]

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