Learn the secrets of making quilted portraits, from whimsical and cartoon-like silly selfie postcards to accurately proportioned quilted portraits. You will discover that it isn’t nearly as hard as you imagined. Learn to choose your photo, draft a pattern, and create a fusible appliqué quilted portrait. At the end of class, Lyric will also demonstrate how she uses technology as a tool to speed the pattern making process.
3 or 6 hour class
"Thank you for your great teaching. I really appreciate that you focused on giving us tools and processes that we can use in our own creative journeys. Your class was the first class I’ve attended that I didn’t feel any suggestion that I should try and duplicate a certain look or style. Thank you!"
Katherine Nichols
Live Virtual Class options: Please click HERE
Supplies:
- Sketchbook or plain paper
- Tracing paper
- Pencil, eraser
- Black regular point sharpie
- Opaque silver sharpie
- A small pile of scraps (to be shared in an in-person class): small-scale tone on tone prints, batiks, and neutrals, plus a few yarns and embellishments for hair
- Fat Quarters of: dark/med/light/lighter of one color (also to be shared in an in-person class)
- Scrap of solid black fabric, scrap of solid white fabric (eyes, teeth, nostrils)
- Very sharp, pointy, fabric scissors, paper scissors
- Glue sticks and wet wipes (to clean glue off hands)
- A couple yards of baking parchment or silicone press sheets (used during fusible process)
- 1 yard of regular weight Wonder-Under or your favorite fusible web, unless you’ve pre-fused your fabrics. (Please no Heat-n-Bond)
- Light box/table (THIS LED light tablet is lightweight and inexpensive. You can plug it into a phone charger so that you won't need an extension cord in a live class)
- Optional: mini-iron and pressing surface
- Note: you do not need to have photos ready, Lyric will supply files for you to print to practice on.
Please read through this advanced preparation page for six hour classes:
https://lyrickinard.com/playful-portraiture-advanced-preparation/
OPTIONAL TECH INFO
This portion of class with be a demonstration only. Be advised that we don't have time to help you learn to use your particular phone or tablet.
We will be spending the last 1/2 hour of class learning how digital tools such as tablets and smartphones can make your portrait pattern making easier. These tools simply make what we do a little faster but are not necessary. You can implement everything we learn without them.
If you want to download Sketchbook, Snapseed, and Paper Camera($) you can work along with me but it is not necessary.
You will have access to video tutorials online so that you can really dig into the technology later.
Many of the Apps need you to configure permissions, such as allowing your camera to access the App. Don’t be afraid to play around with each App before class and discover some of the things they can do. I promise you will be MUCH happier if you get a little practice in before class.
- Know how to turn on your device: I will not be able to help each individual in class turn on and configure their device
- Have your device fully charged
- On your device, open your App Store or Google Play and search for the app and download it
- Download Sketchbook on a tablet - it's not really useful on a phone
- You will find a tutorial for how we will use the app in class HERE
- Download Snapseed on a tablet or smartphone and open and play around with it BEFORE CLASS
- You will find a tutorial for how we will use the app in class HERE
Lyric is now booking for 2024 & 2025
Please click HERE if you would like to book this class.
How a LIVE ZOOM Class Works
Option 1 (Playful Portraiture works best as a 6 hour class)
$550
3hrs Live via Zoom
Plus 24 hours access to all pre-recorded online video tutorials
Option 2
$850
6hrs live via Zoom
Plus 24 hours access to all pre-recorded online video tutorials
Option 3
The NO COST TO YOUR GUILD Option, Lyric takes direct payment from students
You choose a course and a date, I set up the class online and each student signs up and pays me directly.
The class is still a live class. I charge $35 per student for a 3hr class and $65 per student for a 6hr class.
You share the advertising material and link I provide for the class and promote the class to your guild as often as you can.
Two weeks before the course starts I open up empty slots to my newsletter subscribers.
Please only use this option if you think at least 10 students will sign up for the course.
To be clear, if you choose this option the guild does not pay me anything for the class but it is still included in our contract.
Student Gallery
Lyric is booking for 2024 & 2025.
Come spend a playful day learning the secrets of making faces, from whimsical and cartoon-like to accurately proportioned portraits. You will discover that it isn’t nearly as hard as you imagined. Get seriously silly with your selfies.
Lyric will teach non-tech methods all day as we trace the practice photos she brings to create our own patterns. During the last hour of class Lyric will demonstrate how she uses technology to speed the pattern making process. Those students who don't wish to use tablets or smart phones can continue to work on their projects during this time.
Supply Fee: none
6 hour format
NO SEWING MACHINES
Supplies:
- Sketchbook or plain paper, pencil, eraser
- Black regular point sharpie
- Opaque silver sharpie
- Fabric scissors, paper scissors
- Glue sticks and wet wipes (to clean glue off hands)
- Tracing paper
- Optional but extremely useful: LED light tablet and USB battery back so you don’t have to plug it into the wall
- NOTE: you do NOT have to bring photos, Lyric will provide practice photos so you can learn this technique
- Quart sized ziplock bag of scraps to share: small-scale tone on tone prints, small scale batiks, and neutrals, dark/med/light of one color, plus a few yarns and embellishments for hair
- Scraps of Black and White
- Fat quarter each of two almost solid light colors
- Half a fat quarter of a-little-bit-less-light almost solids - this and the above are for skin - which can be any non-traditional color. You can choose to share these and work from a common table of fabric (which is much more fun) or bring fabric you really want to work with the might work.
- Fat quarter of any interesting print that might work for hair (again - it’s much more fun to share this)
- A couple yards of baking parchment or silicone press sheets
- 1 yard of Wonder-Under or your favorite fusible web (not Heat-n-Bond
- Optional: mini-iron and pressing surface
The last 30 minutes of class we will demonstrate how to use digital tools to speed the same process you’ve learned with tracing paper. There will not be time to work with individuals on how to use the apps but online tutorials will be listed and available after class.
- Optional: iPad or Tablet with the following apps loaded: Sketchbook or Adobe fresco
- Optional: Smartphone with Snapseed app already loaded
This portion of class with be a demonstration only. Be advised that we don't have time to help you learn to use your particular phone or tablet.
We will be spending the last 1/2 hour of class learning how digital tools such as tablets and smartphones can make your portrait pattern making easier. These tools simply make what we do a little faster but are not necessary. You can implement everything we learn without them.
If you want to download Sketchbook, Snapseed, and Paper Camera($) you can work along with me but it is not necessary.
You will have access to video tutorials online so that you can really dig into the technology later.
Many of the Apps need you to configure permissions, such as allowing your camera to access the App. Don’t be afraid to play around with each App before class and discover some of the things they can do. I promise you will be MUCH happier if you get a little practice in before class.
- Know how to turn on your device: I will not be able to help each individual in class turn on and configure their device
- Have your device fully charged
- On your device, open your App Store or Google Play and search for the app and download it
- Download Sketchbook on a tablet - it's not really useful on a phone
- You will find a tutorial for how we will use the app in class HERE
- Download Snapseed on a tablet or smartphone and open and play around with it BEFORE CLASS
- You will find a tutorial for how we will use the app in class HERE
- Optional - Download Paper Camera by JFDP Labs on an apple smartphone.
I can't find it any more on google play and haven't found a good alternative yet.
If Paper Artist comes up, that is the same thing on Android and will work.
(If you don’t want to pay for the app, no worries. You can watch how we use it then decide if you want it.)- You will find a tutorial for how we will use the app in class HERE
- Know how to turn on your device: I will not be able to help each individual in class turn on and configure their device
- Have your device fully charged: we will not have enough outlets for more than two people
- bring a charger if you have one - it can power an LED lightbox as well
- Download Sketchbook or Adobe Fresco on a tablet and register for your free account BEFORE CLASS.
- If you follow this link you will find a tutorial for how we will use the app in class
- Download Snapseed on a tablet or smartphone and open and play around with it BEFORE CLASS
- If you follow this link you will find a tutorial for how we will use the app in class
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Click here to view a printable supply list
You will need Adobe Reader, which is available here for free.Classroom Requirements:
One iron and board per 5 students.
Parchment for each ironing station - this is on the student supply list.
A screen or wall on which to project demonstrations.
Two tables pushed together (breeding ground for shared piles of fabric) in a place where all the students can gather