This week has been lovely as I managed to have three days
in the studio, just concentrating on my own work (sorry to anyone who was
expecting work or tidiness from me this week...!).
Having spent a lot of time mulling ideas over, I finally
bit the bullet and got stuck into making.
Nothing big so far, although I have now started some bigger pieces. These are little samples/pieces.
Using a strategy that worked for me in the past, I
decided to make do with the materials I had at home rather than obsessing about
what materials I really, really needed to make the work. So rather than buying a screen and screen
printing inks and getting some thermofax screens made, I used my runnier fabric
paints (Jacquard Dye-Na-Flow, which I love) and the odds and sods of acrylic
paint I had lying around. Before this
all sounds too saintly, I have bought more procion dyes to increase the colour
range of the background fabric and bought some additional acrylics when I was
out on Thursday as I ran out of the colours I used in the samples!
I really like the results of using the acrylics to mark
the cloth after more subtly altering it with the fabric paints. I then added lots of free machine stitching
on top.
The other piece uses one of my least favourite fabrics:
polyester net curtain fabric. However, the transparency works really well, more
so than the silk I have here. Although I
melted it a couple of times, I think I may work with it in the future.
1 comment:
Looks like you've had great fun with your sampling, and are far more relaxed than I about using up materials! Love your wee ladies...whatever they're up to!
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