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Karen Bolan is a quilter in California, United States. She is drawn to the layers of design and expression possible in quilting, and she loves the learning that comes from experimenting. Her designs are out of the box, and integrate a love of geometry, experimentation, interconnection, depth, and texture. Her work has been featured in numerous magazines including Quilts Japan, Make Modern, and the QuiltCon Magazine, and her quilts have been exhibited at local and international shows including QuiltCon, Pacific International Quilt Festival, and the de Young Museum in San Francisco. Learn more about Karen’s work and quilting travel experiences by visiting her website at www.KarenBolan.com or @karen.bolan on Instagram.

Special effect with colours

Journey into colour mastery by creating illusions and tricking the eye. Colour is one of the most exciting things about quilting, and yet it’s easy to feel unsure about our choices. By understanding how we see a colour and then creating illusions with colour, students can develop colour confidence and giddy enjoyment. In this class, learn to define and use basic colour theory terminology; apply the principles of additive and subtractive colour as they relate to vision, light, and the physical world; create mutable colour illusions; create a colour palette with afterimage effects; and create transparency illusions including a complex transparency illusion with more than two overlapping shapes and textures.