1.6.4 - I painted a paper randomly with left over paint, then tried it a variety of synthetic fabrics. The 100% polyester takes the paint best and allows the brushstrokes to be seen most clearly.
1.6.3 - continued samples of colour mixing. These are my favourites especially the far right column of blue/brown shades formed by mixing green and red!
1.6.2 - Fibrecrafts paints -the original colours are so bright they are nearly fluorescent but mixed they make lovely muted but clear colours. The fabric on the right shows a mirror image of the painted paper after ironing. On all I had to use a dry iron on linen setting to get the colour saturation.
I decided to have a go at transfer dyeing as this is new to me. I found heat resistant polyester fabric and ready mixed paints at Fibrecrafts. I borrowed two types of crayons in order to compare the effect and will borrow some powder transfer paints to look at the effect of sprinkling them on wet paper. I was unable to buy these locally so I haven't tried bath dyeing but I like the mottled effect of the mixed paints as in my photos, so I am happy to manage without. They were very expensive so I don't want to invest in any more! I have written notes on each page.
1 comment:
What a useful exercise this will turn out to be. You'll be able to refer back to this, so it was time well spent. It looks gorgeous too!
Post a Comment