Today I painted a few new patches for Joseph's colourful coat. And this is the mess in which I work (and I seem to need it):
I use acrylics and disperse them on a smooth surface, then comb it with a selfmade plastic tool to create the patterns and transfer it by just pressing the cloth (old linnen bedsheet) onto the paint. It is much easier than creating a print which is meant to remain after washing. Mine would suffer a lot.
This is the palette.I was desparate today, trying to iron a laser print onto cloth. Just a faint, dirty shadow! Looks like I have to buy this transparent foil for laser printers. Or is there a cheap and easy way? 50 years ago in school I learnt how to print with potatoe halves into which we cut patterns. But not photographs.
And this is the husband, watching O'Sullivan play a brilliant snooker in the UK Championship.
5 comments:
this is a good idea - it sounds like monoprinting - which i have never tried.
"the husband" is cute. The fabrics are really interesting and I love seeing them evolve. All this activity makes me feel like a sloth.
I'd better get busy!
What Rayna meant to say was not only is the husband cute, but he is young! LOL I love your printing technique. Just gorgeous stuff! Did you make the pillow that is in the picture with 'the husband'?
xo
Yes, the pillow is the Paul Klee cushion.
http://www.allerlei-kuenste.de/galerie/sticken/paulklee.html
And my husband is 43. I stopped contradicting people who think he is my son.
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