Monday 22 September 2008

Four days of fun and surface decoration






Last week I spent four days with one of my closest friends just being creative.... bliss. Had a chance to explore "lamination" from the Lesley Morgan, Claire Benn and Jane Dunwold book purchased at the NEC, (pic's 1 and 2). After completing the lamination(transfer) process, which is so easy to follow from the book using matt medium, sheer polyester fabric and a variety of papers I screen printed the tree using a paper stencil and printing inks (pic 1). With the second bit (pic 2) decided to use transfer paints to decorate the surface further and took a print from a piece of anaglypta using the transfer paints then when dry, heat transferred it onto the sheer cloth. Very pleasing results!
Photo number 3 is a printed peice of fine linen using fabric paints with stamps, string, sequin waste and my trusty anaglypta then painted over with procion dyes (salt and soda added). It retained the colour really well so was chuffed.
And finally the last photograph is of the two paper stencils i cut for screenprinting and used during the time to decorate every piece of fabric and paper i could get my hands!
What a great few days am already looking forward to the next time we can manage to sneak off...
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4 comments:

Mandi said...

What a fab time we had........looking forward to our next one.

sharon young said...

What a great set of samples , Dot, I particularly like the top one, it's a beautiful combo of images and text.
You've fired me up to do some work from the book, I bought that one too from FOQ, thanks so much for sharing the processes.

Wendy said...

Hi Dot, can't find an e-mail address for you, please contact me so that I can add your info, to the finyovislan blog

Val said...

Just brilliant Dot - so creative and inspirational .... love them all!