{"id":1084,"date":"2008-12-11T02:38:23","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T06:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2008-12-11T02:39:45","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T06:39:45","slug":"textile-translations-mixed-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=1084","title":{"rendered":"Textile Translations: Mixed Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1085\" title=\"maggie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/maggie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/maggie.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/maggie-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am bias: I met Maggie Grey at the Festival of Quilts show in Birmingham UK this past summer and just think the world of her.\u00a0 In addition to be gracious and extremely sharing, she&#8217;s a prolific artist eager to teach to whomever is hungry to learn &#8212; be it in her books, classes, or in her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.workshopontheweb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Workshop on the Web<\/a> online magazine (which I subscribe to, good stuff).<\/p>\n<p>Maggie&#8217;s latest book is <em>Textile Translations: Mixed Media<\/em>, a full-color 80 page book filled with lavish, textured creations that start with gesso, paper, and salt.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1087\" title=\"grey3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/grey3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/grey3.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/grey3-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The surfaces build depending on what else is added to the work, such as paint, Markal (Shiva) sticks, fibers, inks, colored pencils, and so on. The resulting work just beg to be incorporated into mixed media work, textiles, journal books, quilts, and more.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1089\" title=\"grey1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/grey1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/grey1.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/grey1-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1088\" title=\"grey4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/grey4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/grey4.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/grey4-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reading through this book and looking at the resulting work has ideas spinning through my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus: In the spirit of Maggie&#8217;s give, give, give nature, she is also offering free, yes free, online classes to anyone who purchased her book.\u00a0 There is a series of lessons offered at the <strong>book&#8217;s website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.d4daisy.com\/maggiete.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong> (where you can also purchase the book).\u00a0 There is also an email group you can join.\u00a0 You need the book in hand the enter the passwords for each lesson, and it&#8217;s well worth it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am bias: I met Maggie Grey at the Festival of Quilts show in Birmingham UK this past summer and just think the world of her.\u00a0 In addition to be gracious and extremely sharing, she&#8217;s a prolific artist eager to teach to whomever is hungry to learn &#8212; be it in her books, classes, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}