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Workshop to focus on textile design

By Nadine Kam

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jun 11, 2009
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Artist and textile designer Emma Howard will be teaching "How to Turn Your Art Into an Aloha Shirt Print Design" during a weekend workshop June 19-21 at Studio Be, 63 N. Beretania St.

She will give a step-by-step demonstration from drawing to posting finished art with color chips on a presentation board that can be printed industrially overseas onto 3,000 yards of fabric, or as few as 300 yards by a local silk-screener.

Howard hand-paints her designs, or uses Japanese and European chisels to carve blocks made from found objects in her textile designs for apparel and accessory companies in Hawaii and abroad.

She's worked on projects for Kahala Sportswear, Maui Jim Sunglasses, TheBus and Handivan drivers, Patagonia, Iolani, Reyn Spooner and Kendall Jackson Wine, to name a few.

She's worked on motifs featuring Hawaii's endangered species; ocean-life themes such as canoes, surfers and fish; and land-based concepts, such as flowers and coconut palms. More of her designs can be viewed online at emmahowardstudio2.blogspot.com.

An instructional session will take place 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. June 19, during which Howard will tell participants how to prepare for the workshop, which runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. June 20-21. The cost is $250.

In addition, Dale Hope, author of "The Aloha Shirt: Spirit of the Islands" and art director for Kahala Sportswear, will start the workshop with a presentation on Hawaii's apparel industry. He will also answer questions from artists.

To register, call 692-6727 or e-mail emmahowardstudio@yahoo.com.

Workshop article Honolulu Advertiser announcement

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090612/LIFE/906120323/Quick-change+Miche+bags+a+snap


By Paula Rath
Advertiser Staff Writer

Turn your ART into a TEXTILE

If you've ever wanted to see your art on someone's back, here's an opportunity to learn how to design a textile print using paper, pencil and paint.

Emma Howard, a Kailua-based textile designer, will teach a small group a step-by-step approach, from drawing to finished art, 5 to 8 p.m. June 19 and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. June 20 and 21 at a Chinatown studio. Participants will walk away with color chips on a presentation board that can be printed industrially overseas.

Howard has designed textiles for Kahala, TheBus, Dole Plantation and Reyn Spooner, to name just a few.

Students will also hear Dale Hope, author of "The Aloha Shirt: Spirit of the Islands" speak about Hawai'i's apparel industry.

Cost: $250. To register, contact Emma Howard at 692-6727 or emmahowardstudio@yahoo.com.

Tiare flowers picked on my morning stroll in Lanikai,Oahu

A favorite flower seen on many aloha shirts,fine art canvases and behind the ears of people who love the fragrance.

Wikipedia:


"... The first acceptable scientific name for the plant was based on Tahitian specimens collected by Jules Dumont d'Urville in 1824. Hence the scientific name of Gardenia taitensis, and the English name of Tahitian Gardenia..."

Lanikai art studio has aloha shirt yardage blowing in ocean breeze

Yesterday I drove to Honolulu to Kahala's office to pick up a brown envelope containing these 5 pieces of fabric that are shown on the clothes line here.Each one is in a different colorway of same design.

"Skills" Kahala Sportswear motifs include:

outrigger canoe
fishing beach shacks
fishing canoe paddler
surfers
canoe paddles
coconut palm trees
man climbing coconut palm tree

Many hours of carving by hand with my chisels and printed by hand .Background texture from my former Kailua concrete studio floor.

Hanging on clothes line in small ("tiny baby" to quote my 3 year old grandson, Ryder Storm) Lanikai art studio courtyard are the 5 different colorways ,blowing in ocean breeze, for this design; Navy and white,green and white,grey and white,green with brown and white, blue with navy and white.

Aloha,

Emma

"How To Turn Your Art Into An Aloha Shirt Print Design" workshop

Leticia Ojeda of Office of Hawaiian Affairs connected me with "Studio Be" in Chinatown, Honolulu which is run by Moana Aluli Meyer, to hold this workshop in.

On Friday, June 19, Dale Hope,art director for Kahala Sportswear, will start off the first day of workshop by speaking to the artists about the apparel industry,illustrated throughout his book, The Aloha Shirt,spirit of the islands.

It will continue for next 2 days.

Contact me emmahowardstudio@yahoo.com with any questions and to register. Seating is very limited.

On Sunday, Robert Jackson, owner of Island Traditions, will speak about process of having yardage printed.

Thank you.,

Emma

Na Oiwi Olino,(People Seeking Wisdom), Radio Show AM940

OHA/Office of Hawaiian Affairs' radio show,"Na Oiwi Olino", http://am940hawaii.com/ to interview Emma Howard to discuss her work as textile artist/designer in Hawaii,using Polynesian images as references.

Emma will be calling from the parking lot of Kailua Beach Park on Hawaiian Island of Oahu.

Let's hope that there are some waves breaking along the shoreline for great background sound effects.

Please join us.

Aloha,

Emma

Pepi Wine 100% silk Aloha Shirt with surfers

A casual surf print on 100% silk for Kendall Jackson's Pepi Wine brand.We used all of Pepi's colors on a muted yellow ground and their surfboard logo.


Motifs:
Pepi Surf Board Logo
Coconut palm trees
pareo flowers
Surfers wearing pareo shorts
Surfboards
Pepi wine glasses
Guitar Player and girl sitting under surf shack in center of print

The surf shack image was taken from a photograph that I took of an impromptu shack that had been constructed with coconut palm fronds and found pieces of wood.

Robert Jackson of Island Traditions manufactured the silk shirt.

Though silk, it's a very casual .

Aloha from Kailua,

Emma