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<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\nThursday (2 day class): 4501C Luminous Painted Illusions Saturday (2 day class): \u00a06701C\u00a0 Animal Portraits \t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,7,33],"tags":[117,380,870,977],"class_list":["post-5184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes","category-faculty","category-road-to-california-2018","tag-artwork-classes","tag-esterita-austin","tag-painted-illusions","tag-quilt-enhancements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Luminous-Painted-Illusions.jpg\")
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<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nA resident of Port Jefferson New York, Esterita Austin has lived there for 40 years. Esterita has many master sewers in her family. Her grandfather was a master pattern maker in the garment industry of New York where today he would have been considered a designer. Esterita\u2019s grandmother was a master seamstress and her aunt made all of her clothes and her family’s clothes and is the one who taught Esterita how to sew.![\"\"](\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Esterita-819x1024.jpg\")
<\/a>\nIn 1980, Esterita began quilting by doing traditional bed quilts for her children. She discovered art quilting in the 1990\u2019s and as she says, \u201cit took over like a fever.\u201d Lately, Esterita has been painting on parchment paper and transferring the image onto organza and then painting\u2014the same technique she will be sharing in her classes.\nWhen Esterita isn\u2019t quilting, she is traveling. It is with her travels that she finds inspiration for her quilts, taking photographs of what interests her. Currently, she has a thing for old, rusted out cars. The furthest Esterita has traveled that is quilt related is Australia and New Zealand.\nOne of the things Esterita likes best about teaching is meeting other teachers on the road and sharing experiences. When she is in the classroom, Esterita loves seeing the lightbulb go off above her students\u2019 heads. She has found that \u201cpeople who say they can’t paint always seem delighted when they learn that they can.\u201d One of the most satisfying things for Esterita to teach is value <\/em><\/strong>and value<\/em><\/strong> is used in all of her classes. She hopes her students learn how to use value <\/em><\/strong>successfully and that they gain confidence in their abilities.\n[caption id=\"attachment_5190\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"200\"]![\"\"](\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/thmb_8.jpg\")
<\/a> Artwork by student, Sue Bianchi[\/caption]\nWhat is Esterita\u2019s her best quilting tip? \u201cTake a dry, Mr. Clean<\/em> sponge, apply Dritz<\/em> iron-off to it and then rub on a hot iron to clean the soleplate. Always use in a well-ventilated area as this procedure will cause some smoke.\u201d\nTo learn more about Esterita, please visit her website<\/a>.\n ]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"