Deanne Fitzpatrick – författare

Learn to blend core techniques with inspiration to create wall-worthy landscapes that are eye-catching, meaningful, and soothing to make. With this inspiring guide, you can craft your own landscape adventure in wool! Master the art of hooking the land, sea, and sky in this inspiring guide to making contemporary fiber art that’s completely personalized and expertly rendered. Express your own style in yarn and cloth as you learn to turn your vision into a strong line-based design. Then, chapter by chapter, master the specifics of hooking effective, motion-filled horizons, landforms, water, trees, skies—even buildings and people. With an approachable teaching style that focuses on our sense of place and the scenes that surround us, expert instructor Deanne Fitzpatrick provides: • detailed walk-throughs of six projects, such as “Tiny Landscape” and “Sunset Cottages”;• instructions for six core techniques, such as traditional outlining, sketchbook use, and creating mixes;• inspiring photos of 148 artworks to draw on for learning and ideas; and• ways to embrace self-care in your time crafting and being outdoors, brought to life with stories of Deanne’s experiences with landscapes. Whether you’re making a 3" by 5" piece or a larger wall-sized composition, use your newfound skills to bring personal scenes to life, from magnolia forests to flower fields to seaside villages. Throughout, Fitzpatrick encourages makers to embrace the self-care potential of this medium.

Working from twenty years' experience as a rug hooker, studio owner, and teacher, Deanne Fitzpatrick shares her sources of inspiration, work habits, ideas about creativity and design, and hepful guidelines for creating beautiful, expressive rugs. Practical suggestions for hooking houses, landscapes, seasons, stories, and people are accompanied by the artist's insight into tapping creativity and learning how to make art from life. Tips for choosing colours, experimenting with texture, preparing a backing, transfering a design, and achieving realistic depictions are interspersed with passages on artistic inspiration and process. Best of all, over 80 striking colour photographs of the author's own projects and techniques provide readers with excellent reference points for turning their own experiences into magnificent rugs.