Contact me:   anita@anitalarkin.com

• Below is a list of workshops coming up that I am teaching.
• If you do not find something to suit you here please contact me to discuss a customized workshop for you. Private Tuition available.
• If you have a small group of people who want to do a workshop I can tailor the class to your particular needs and travel to your area.

 Feltmaking at Number Ten Arts Precinct (Jamberoo)

www.numberten.cc 

• Meroogal Womens Art Prize 

Little Felted Sculptures 18th Sept. 2010 

Anita will introduce you to the methods feltmakers use to make solid 3D shapes, beads, bangles, cords, flowers and tubes. During the making of these little felted wearable sculptures, you will be able to experiment with incorporating found materials, fabrics and yarns into the body of the felt that will produce highly textural and sumptuous surfaces upon the form. You will learn how to felt around wire and plastic. The options are only limited by your imagination.

 Sculpture at Number Ten Arts Precinct (Jamberoo)

www.numberten.cc 

Bookings: 42361972 / 0449523067

10 Allowrie St, Jamberoo NSW 2533.

• Mondays for 6 weeks beginning July 26th 2010 (10am to 1pm)

• Modelling the Figure in Paperclay 
  

      The human figure provides a great deal of inspiration for the sculptor. This course is an introduction to modelling for sculpture working from the life figure. Anita Larkin will lead you through working in 3-dimensions, and how to construct expressive figures in paper clay working directly from a life model. 
        Paper clay is a marvelous material to begin modelling the figure with. It behaves much like clay, but unlike clay is able to be easily mended, layered, cut and rejoined, at any stage in the drying process. You will learn how to use this material to make an armature for, to carve, to model, and to assemble your own figurative sculptures. This material provides a great deal of freedom and forgiveness within the making process. You will be amazed at the sculptural forms that can be achieved with paper clay.

Blue Mountains NSW

Contact: Loret Runagall     loret@tpg.com.au

•  Multiple Resists 24th -25th July 2010 

 This workshop explores the creative use of multiple resists to create multilayered 3D objects such as bags or vessels. The course covers the design and use of plastic resists, bubble-wrap resists, fabric resists, to produce unusual felted forms that are initially inspired by line drawings.

 New Zealand (Te Aroha)

www.creativevacationz.co.nz

contact: Raewyn Penrose Originals    rpo@ihug.co.nz

• Drawing on Inspiration 2D to 3D    1st - 3rd September 2010
  

This workshop uses skills and methods of drawing and collage to form new designs and forms in feltmaking by looking at found objects. Tired of working from the same template patterns? Are you intrigued by the possibilities of holey templates? Students will learn the intricacies of designing and planning their own unique templates and felted forms such as hats and bags like you have never imagined them before. 

•  Felted Jewellery 4th -5th September 2010
  

 Discover Anita’s innovative methods of felting solid 3D forms such as balls, beads, tubes, cones, flowers, discs, looped bangles, hollow forms and cords. Students will then be guided by Anita into developing their own unique designs making little wearable sculptures.

Shoalhaven Community College, Nowra

www.kcc.nsw.edu.au

Ph: 42321050 

• Feltmaking the basics 11th September 2010 

You will be amazed at how some pressure and warm soapy water can turn soft colourful tufts of wool into robust felt. This course is a basic introduction to feltmaking. Learn the traditional nomadic way of making a felt rug together using traditional design techniques. This is followed by felting a simple 3D pouch using the resist method.Discover why so many people are fascinated by feltmaking!

• Feltmaking - Nuno Scarves 12th September 2010
  

Learn how to create cobweb lace felt and ‘Nuno’ felt (felt that utilizes fabric within it). Students will make a beautiful warm fine felt scarf of their own design. Experiment with felting directly into the body of a woven fabric to create unusual highly textured felts. This class will inspire you with the possibilities of delicate lightweight lace felts and surface design textures within a scarf. 

•     A Taste of Feltmaking - Beginners workshop 23rd October 2010
  

Feltmaking is an ancient artform, thought to have originated in Mongolia, combining soft tufts of wool fibre with warm soapy water and the pressure of your hand, to produce a dense robust textile. Students will explore techniques for the making of felted bangles, rings and solid 3D felted forms for jewellery making during the morning. An introduction to the resist method of felting will follow in the afternoon, with the making of a simple 3D seamless vessel or pouch with absolutely sumptuous surface texture and design. This workshop will leave your creative taste buds hungry for more!

• Felted Bags 24th October 2010   

(Students must have some basic felting experience to do this class)

Anita Larkin will reveal how to design and calculate a template resist for your unique felted bag. Wool fibres are then felted around this resist to create a seamless bag. Various methods of felting in handles, creating multiple pockets, and felted fixtures such as button closures will be explored. This workshop will leave you full to the brim with creative ideas for felting bags. You will be inspired by the range of possibilities within feltmaking!

Orange NSW   TAFTA Forum

www.tafta.org.au

• Unique Felted Bags and Vessels  10 - 15th April 2011
  

 Felt is a wondrous sculptural medium. Enjoy creatively felting with Anita Larkin, learning how to design and then make unique yet functional felted bags/ or sculptural vessel forms. Felting in handles, pockets, felted button closures, will be taught as well as methods for using found objects as a resist to create vessels.

Grampians Texture VIC

www.grampianstexture.com.au

• Felted Jewellery 26th/27th February 2011

Felt is a wondrous sculptural medium. During this course you will delve into the possibilities of creating little sculptural forms that are wearable as jewellery. Discover Anita Larkin’s innovative methods of felting solid 3D forms such as balls, beads, tubes, cones, flowers, discs, looped bangles, and cords, as well as more complex and unusual shapes. Students will learn dry felting methods of creating shapes prior to wet felting, and how to build shapes upon one another. Students will be encouraged to develop innovative designs for felted jewellery. The results will be stunning, unique, little sculptural pieces that can be worn on the body. 

• Felted Footwear and Bags 28th - 3rd March 2011
  

(Students will need to have some felting experience for this class)

Join Anita Larkin in exploring the template method of making hand-felted slippers and bags. Students will design and felt their own cosy footwear custom made for their own feet as well as a unique felted bag. These may be as wild and individual as you dare to wear. This is an opportunity to maybe make those pointed pixie shoes and goldfish handbag you have been dreaming of. The intricacies of planning the template, felting, and fulling shoes and bags successfully will be covered as well as methods of surface design, making handles and buttons.

This workshop explores the creative use of multiple resists to create multi-layered structural 3D objects, scarves, and jewellery pieces. The course covers the design of, resons for using, and different results achieved, using plastic resists, fabric resists, bubble-wrap resists, and jointed resists.

• Felt is a wondrous sculptural medium. Learn how to design and then make unique yet functional bags and vessels using Anita template method and dry-felting techniques. Skills involved in creating multiple pockets, infelted handles, cords, and felted closures will also be explored.
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