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Garfield

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This tie dye bandana is brightly colored with orange, blue, yellow, pink, purple and green. The way it was folded, crumpled and tied has created a series of splotches in different sizes and shapes, with a fair bit of the white cloth showing through. All the colors have seeped and bled together to create and interesting, random pattern.

Mario Oshi

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This tie dye piece features a distinct spiral pattern that starts at the center of the square cloth and moves out to the edges. Pink, yellow, dark pink and brown all feature in the spiral, with broken splotches allowing the white of the cloth to show through.

Rainbow Colors

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This piece is brightly colored with orange and pink. The way the cloth was folded, crumpled and tied has created splotches of colors that bleed and seep together, with a good amount of the white cloth showing through.

Scooby Doo in the House

Workshop: Stained Glass on Canvas
Medium: acrylic paint on canvas

This canvas is divited into six sections with a black grid. The left and right top sections are divided again with a diagonal black line to create large triangle across the top. The triangle sits atop a rectangle, creating the shape of a house. The roof (triangle) is painted pink and black. THe res of the house is painted white, black and orange. The sections outside the shape of the house are painted light blue as if they are sky.

Superman Colors

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This piece features a distinct X of purple dye that goes through the middle of the square cloth. All around the X are splotches of pink, green, blue and orange. They are different shapes and sizes.

United States Flag

Workshop: Sashiko
Medium: yarn embroidered on denim

This rectangle of denim features a series of nested rectangles that start small at the center and get larger as they move out toward the edges. They are embroidered into the cloth with white yard, using evenly spaced, straight stitches.

Halloween

Workshop: Stained Glass on Canvas
Medium: acrylic paint on canvas

This piece features a black background. It is a Halloween scene, featuring a bright orange jack-o-lantern moon and dark blue clouds. A mysterious-looking house painted in dark blue and highlighted in yellow. There are three bats painted in the blue and highlighted in white and two jagged tree branches painted in yellow and white. There is also a white ghost chasing a person, who has their hands up over their head in fright. There are two jack-0-lanterns near the person and three white skeletons crawling at the person's feet.

Pumpkin Spice

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This tie dye bandana features a large blue flower with eight rounded petals. The center of the flower is blue, with a purple circle that is speckled with yellow and green. This gives way to blue that bleeds into pink with purple spots. Then blue again, which bleeds into orange spots between each petal. The orange is outlined by yellow, which turns to green. THe green seeps into blue before turning purple in each corner.

Santa Clause

Workshop: Paper Mache
Medium: paper mache using newspaper and found objects

This sculpture represents a person. It is in a seated position with two legs and arms pointing to the left and right. The body and right leg are painted red. The left leg is painted black. The left arm is painted blue and the right arm is painted green. The head is painted half green and half pink, with a thin, white diagonal line separating the two colors. There is pink tissue paper tied around the top of the head, which hangs loose around the face.

Santa in Hawaii

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This bandana features concentric nesting diamonds that get more and more rounded on the sides as they move out toward the edges of the square. Each diamond is a different color, starting with green at the center. This bleeds into a thin yellow diamond, which bleeds into a thick orange diamond. Then a dark pink diamond is separated from the next purple diamond by a thin, broken line of white. The purple bleeds into a brown diamond, which seeps into a light blue diamond. Lastly, the two opposing corners are purple.

Sweetheart

Workshop: Stained Glass on Canvas
Medium: acrylic paint on canvas

This canvas features diagonal black lines that run from the top to the bottom at different angles. This has created different geometric shapes. Each shape is painted a different color: yellow, dark blue, tan, light blue, green, pink and white. Two of the white shapes also feature a smiley person with two eyes, a smile, two arms and two legs.

Sweetheart

Workshop: Sashiko
Medium: yarn embroidered on denim

This rectangle of denim has been stitched with red yarn. Many of the stitches wrap around the denim, which has crumpled and gathered the denim. Particularly on the right side.

Sweetie Pie

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This tie dye piece features diagonal lines of broken color. Each line is made up of a series of dots and splotches that are different sizes and shapes. Pink, blue, yellow and orange make up the different colors, with bits of white cloth showing through.

The Japanese Garden

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This piece features a series of broken lines in green and pink, with yellow between them. They run horizontally across the square, with spots of white clotch separating them.

Cube

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This piece features a distinct concentric square pattern. The squares start off smaller at the center and get larger with each square. They are intensely colored with a solid blue square in the center. It features a dark blue outline, which bleeds into a thick purple square. This bleeds into a red square, which gets darker around it's edges as the colors bleed into turquoise.

Fireflies

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This tie dye piece features a lined pattern, with each line, blending and breaking into the line below it. From the top of the square, there is a deep red, which seeps into a broken purple line and into a deep blue line. The blue bleeds into a thinner green line, which bleeds into a yellow line with purple spots. This bleeds into a green line, which bleeds into a broken blue line that seeps into a thick purple line.

Mirror

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This bandana features a lined pattern where the top half of the square is a mirror of the bottom half. The top and bottom edges feature a thick blue line, which bleeds into yellow, creating a thin green line along the blue. The yellow seeps into a thick red line, which bleeds into a broken pink line. Through the middle is a very thick blue line where the two mirror patterns have met.

The Qcs

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This tie dye piece features an intensely colored circular pattern.At the center is a deep purple circle, which has seeped along folds and ties during the dying process, creating lines coming out of the right, left, top and bottom. Surrounding the circle is a thicker, green oval with a thin yellow outline. Around the green is another, larger purple circle.

Sunday Night Football. Go Eagles!

Workshop: Stained Glass on Canvas
Medium: acrylic paint on canvas

This piece features thick black lines running horizontally and vertically to divide the canvas into rectangular sections. Each section is painted a different color: orange, dark green, dark purple, light blue and yellow. Along the right portion of the canvas, more black lines have created a football shape with black football lacing through the middle of it. It is painted light brown.

Beautiful Fall

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This piece features a distinct blue circle over a bright yellow background. There are eight purple splotches evenly spaced around the circle, breaking into the blue, creating an interesting pattern where the dies have seeped and bled together.

Beautiful Fall

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This tie dye piece features four bright orange semi circles that encompass the four sides of the square. They stand out against a blue background. At the center of each semi circle is a smaller semi circle of blue, with broken purple dots at the edges. Folding and tying the fabric has created a yellow pattern of dots and lines throughout the orange.

Beautiful Fall

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This bandana features a mix of lines and circles. On the upper half, a thick line of green seeps into a thinner, broken line of yellow, which bleeds into a thick pink line. This gives way to a broken line of green with large spots of blue. The bottom half of the square is a mirror pattern of the top half.

Beautiful Fall

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This tie dye piece features psychedelic pattern of dots and lines where different, vibrant colors of dye have bled and seeped together. This includes, dark blue, orange, pink, green and yellow. Because the cloth was folded and tied, a pattern of white lines peeks through the different colors.

Beautiful Fall

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This piece was folded along the diagonal, tied and dyed, which has resulted in two diagonal halves that are mirrors of one another. On the upper diagonal half is a swirl of yellow and blue over a pink and purple background. The dyes appear as a series of large dots that have seeped and bled together. There is a bit of the original white cloth still peeking through. The lower diagonal half is a mirror of this pattern.

Hula Cactus Christmas Tree Dog

Workshop: Paper Mache
Medium: paper mache using newspaper and found objects

This is a tall, cylindrical sculpture, with four cylindrical prongs sticking out of each side. It is covered in yellow, green, blue and pink tissue paper. The paper has been crumpled and glued to provide some texture. Starting at the top, a nest of green and black yarn is secured to either side of the cylinder. This yarn then spirals down the piece, wrapping around the body and the prongs all the way to the bottom of the piece.

Japanese Wool

Workshop: Sashiko
Medium: yarn embroidery on denim

This rectangle of denim is sticked with white, blue, green and purple stitches. The colored yarn is stitched in 12 even rows across the rectangle. The white yarn is moves vertically down the rows, looping through the horizontal stitches to create an hourglass shape that repeats from top to bottom. Near the right side of the piece, the hourglass stitches are pulled tighter, which has gathered the fabric.

Rainbow Heart with Cross

Workshop: Stained Glass on Canvas
Medium: acrylic paint on canvas

Thin black lines have divided the canvas into sections. There is a blue cross through the middle of the piece. Each section on the right and left of the cross is painted a different color, including dark purple, pink, red, purple and yellow. There are solid black hears through each section and yellow dots over the entire piece.

Ice Blast

Workshop: Stained Glass on Canvas
Medium: acrylic paint on canvas

This canvas is broken into a number of geometric shapes by black lines that give it a stained glass effect. The majority of the shapes are painted blue that starts out lighter on the left side and gets darker toward the right edge. Thick, visible brush strokes give each shape different texture. Along the right edge, is a strip of white paint that gives way to black along the top corner. It curves around the bottom corner and gives way to green paint.

Spiderman Web

Workshop: Sashiko
Medium: yarn embroidery on denim

This rectangle of denim features nine even columns of red stitches. The stitches are evenly spaced and straight. They have been pulled to gather the fabric just enough to create a soft and consistent ripple that moves along the length of the whole piece.

WALL E Long Lost Brother

Workshop: Paper Mache
Medium: paper mache using newspaper and found objects

This sculpture resembles a robot, with a long, rectangular body, two cylindrical arms, a square head with two round eyes, and a small squarish hat. The robot's hat is painted dark blue. It's head is painted deep red around the sides, while the face is painted blue, with two large, round blue eyes. The body is painted bright yellow, with a large capital letter E in red in the middle. Its arms are painted black.

Cobalt

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This tie dye piece is dyed completely in blue. The way it was folded, crumpled and tied during the dying process has created a unique pattern of dots and lines where the dye has seeped and bled to create different shades of blue. The white of the cloth also peeks through in areas to enhance the pattern.

Echo of the Sea

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This bandana is dyed completely in blue. The way it was folded, crumpled and tied during the dying process has created a pattern of lights and darks in the blue. It also features a white circle and spots and lines of white. This makes the piece look like the surface of the ocean with different depths and ripples in the water.

Heart Sunset

Workshop: Stained Glass on Canvas
Medium: acrylic paint on canvas

This canvas has been painted mostly light and dark blue, with a horizontal line splitting the canvas in half. At the center is a bright yellow heart outlined in black. Behind the heart is a semi circle of deep red paint. There are also black lines coming out above the heart like a burst of rays.

Midnight Tide

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This tie dye bandana uses just blue dye. The way it was folded, crumpled and tied during the dye process has created different shades of blue and a rippled pattern of white lines that look similar to the surface of water.

Mocha in Motion

Workshop: Paper Mache
Medium: paper mache using newspaper and found objects

This sculpture features a rectangular body with three prongs sticking out of the top. The body of the rectangle is painted white, with white tissue paper around the upper half to resemble foam. There is a Starbucks logo on the left and right side of the rectangle. The top is painted deep brown. On the right and left are two cylindrical prongs that have been painted brown. At the center is a cylindrical pront that is painted bright green, with a puff of white tissue paper coming out of the top.

Ocean Fade

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This tie dye piece uses only blue dye. The way it was folded, crumpled and tied during the dying process has created a pattern of light and dark blue, with spots and lines of white moving across the entire piece. This resembles the surface of the ocean.

Sunrise

Workshop: Stained Glass on Canvas
Medium: acrylic paint on canvas

This piece is divided into different triangular sections with black lines coming out of the center of the canvas. Each quadrant of triangles is painted a different color, starting with dark pink in the lower right corner. This is followed by a coral pink in the lower left corner. In the upper left corner, two triangles are painted green and blue. The final triangle in the upper right corner is painted black.

Blue Tie Dye

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This tie dye is intensely colored with blue dye. The way it was folded and tied during the dying process has created a concentric square pattern in a lighter blue.

Famous Sashiko Art

Workshop: Sashiko
Medium: yarn emboirdery on denim

This rectangle of denim features yarn stitching of a square next to a smaller rectangle. The square is outlined with a boarder of straight stitches. The intside is made up of nine rows of vertical stitches. Some of them are pulled tighter than others, resulting in some gaterhing near the middle. The top of the rectangle is made up of a row of vertical stitches that are double the length of any other stitches. The rest of it is made of stitches that follow a spiral pattern going to the center of the rectangle. The whole piece uses ombre yarn that goes from white to green to purple.

Idaho Squirrel Feeder

Workshop: Paper Mache
Medium: paper mache using newspaper and found objects

This sculpture features a small dish painted gold. Out of the dish is a long, thin cylindar that connects to a smaller bowl and a large rounded cap on the top. Cylindar is painted bright yellow. The smaller bowl is painted gold and the rounded cap on top is painted black.

Multicolor Tie Dye

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This tie dye bandana features a sun pattern, with a bright pink circle at the middle with eight bright pink rays coming out of it. The rays start thin and get very thick toward the edges of the square. Between the rays has been dyed blue. The colors seep together in places to create darker and lighter spots throughout.

Purple Bandana Tie Dye

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This bandana has been divied on a diagonal down the center (from top left to bottom right). On the upper right half is a purple swirl over a blue background. The blue peeks through the purple throughout the swirl. The bottom left half of the piece is a mirror of the upper right.

Purple Tie Dye Blue

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This tie dye piece features a psychedelic pattern created with blue and pink dyes. Where the blue and pink have bleed together, it has created purple. There is also some white cloth peeking through the dyes throughout the entire piece.

Stained Glass Painting

Workshop: Stained Glass on Canvas
Medium: acrylic paint on canvas

This canvas features five black lines that have broken it up into six horizontal lines of different widths. The top line is painted a light blue, with visible brush strokes. The next line is painted a darker blue. Next is a dark green that starts light along the left edge and fades to black along the right edge. The next line is painted orange, wit hwhite streaks throughout. The next line is a mix of blue, green and orange lines, with visible brush strokes. The final section is the thickest and is painted a mix of greens, with some blue.

Rosemary

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This bandana features an intensely purple circle at the center. This is surrounded by a darker purple diamond that reaches all edges of the square. The background of the piece is blue. The way the cloth was folded, crumpled and tied has created a pattern of purple splotches and lines over the outside of the diamond.

Sarah

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This tie dye piece features a distinct pattern of concentric circles. At the center is the smallest blue circle, which bleeds into a thinner pink circle. The pink bleeds into another thicker blue circle, which bleeds into an orange circle. All four corners of the square are yellow.

Sprinkle Piper

Workshop: Paper Mache
Medium: paper mache using newspaper and found objects

This abstract sculpture is painted entirely in pink. It features a long cylinder body that connects to a rounded upside down bowl on the top. Coming out of either side of the bowl are cylindrical prongs. An orange string is wrapped around both prongs and falls down, crossing over in front of the body and ties around the bottom of the piece.

Squishy Paws

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This tie dye bandana is dyed in blue and pink. It was folded, crumpled and tied to create a random pattern of splotches and shapes that bleed together. This is also a fair amount of white separating the colors in places, particularly through the middle of the square.

Tiny Elvis

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This bandana has been folded and tied through the center to create a mirror pattern across the top and bottom. This has created a series of thin stripes that move across the entire square horizontally. The pink and purples blend together. Toward the center on the right and left edges, the white clotch peeks through the pink and purple.

Autumn Flavor

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This tie dye piece is dyed blue, with a unique pattern that looks like a sunflower in brown dye over the blue. At the center is a small brown circle. This is surrounded by a blue circle, then another, larger brown circle. Coming out of the circle are eight diamonds-shaped pedals. They feature a larger brown diamond with a smaller brown diamond at the center. There is also a series of concentric circles in white that spread out like a water ripple through the entire piece.

Gabe-O-Bot 3000

Workshop: Stained Glass on Canvas
Medium: acrylic paint on canvas

This canvas is painted dark green. Thick black lines have sectioned out the center of the piece, creating a picture that resembles a robot. The robot's arms and legs are painted dark purple. Its body is painted red, with a white upside down triangle at the center. Its head is painted bright yellow, with a band of white and two red squares for eyes. Its mouth is made up of two white triangles on the right and left, with a red lower lip and black mouth. It has two purple rectangles for ears, and two antennae coming out of the top of its head. They are also purple.

Spring Wind

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This piece has been divided diagonally from the upper left to the bottom right. It features a yellow and orange spiral against a purple background along the upper and lower edges of the upper half. The lower half is a mirror image of the upper half.

Summer Glory

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This tie dye bandana features a large sprial that takes up the entire square. Pink, green, purple and blue spiral together, with bits of the white cloth peeking through.

Winter Ice

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

This tie dye bandana features concentric squares. Purple, blue and green repeat, starting and ending with purple. Each square is evenly spaced and the same thickness. The cloth was folded and tied in a way that allows white lines and spots to peek through the dye across the entire piece.