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Archive for July 9th, 2009

Painting Fabric — Instant Gratification

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

splatterpaintcotton

Today, the STASH group painted fabric at Terry’s home. She has a blog post with some photos, too. This piece is my favorite of the day. I didn’t try to do sun printing with this. I painted a base of turquoise and then sponged on some royal blue. After that, I splatterd with a variety of other colors that were available.

My sun printing attempts fell flat. I think the paint was drying to fast because it was rather mild and breezy with no sun. Here are my attempts. My first was this green piece. Before:

greenpaintedbefore

After – nada.

greencotton

This is a silk dupioni that I painted red. I did lots of reddish pieces that I might be able to use for the Passion theme for the next Twelve X 12 challenge. I put washers and jar lids on this.

redsilkbefore

After, with the companion piece which was painted and sprinkled with salt. I added some spatters of black. You can see a couple of faint circles on the piece on the left.

redpaintedsilk

Here is a detail of the spatter piece.

redsplatterpaintdetail

I also painted some cheese cloth in reds and black. Looks quite passionate, don’t you think?

paintedcheesecloth

I had one semi-successful sun print. It was my last piece.

turquoisewithgrid

The next piece was painted with orange and blue. I wanted to get a brown color where they mixed. I sprinkled it with coral Setacolor. I like both sides of this piece.

blueorangecotton

blueorangereverse

Here is the nice setup in the back yard. We were under a canopy. That is Beth, Terry and Reva. Terry prepared a great lunch. The best part was spending the day with friends.

paintinglab