This is a rug hooking retreat that will focus on exploring the use of highlights and shadows while discovering the importance of negative space and atmosphere. Students will also learn to build contrast with color and texture to support the main subject.
The three-day retreat will focus on identifying and building your main subject and developing the areas around it. Softening details that are less important by adjusting the strength of color, placements of highlights and shadows or adding texture. We build interest in our rugs by adding details seen in nature to our compositions. Stand atop the tallest hill in the morning mist, as you look across the horizon, notice the subtle tone of each consecutive hill becoming softer, cooler, more muted. The jagged base of old barns, deeper in color and shadows from snow and water continually soaking the wood. Lichen and moss blanketing stones along filed edges. Identifying the season through color; tender chartreuse leaves in the springtime that mature to deep green by mid-summer and onto brilliant red, leather-like, blankets in Autumn. Photographs of your landscape or still life, paired with the knowledge of what our eyes actually see, develop painterly rugs.
More examples of Michelle's work and more info at: https://gmrhg.org/hooked-in-the-mountains-2025/teachers/michelle-palmer-painterly-twist/
Note: Registration opens August 8, 2024.
Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild is a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization dedicated to educating the public about the fine art of rug hooking. For more information contact our Guild President Sharon O'Neill.
