Marbleous

Moving on to the next experiment ---- this is marbling fabric with dye-na-flow paints and shaving cream.

Using a layer of unscented shaving cream smoothed out, I added drops of paint then swirled it around. I placed fabric over this and patted the fabric down so it would absorb the paint. I peeled the fabric off and scraped any excess shaving cream from the fabric.

Below are the results.

Should anyone have this much fun?

Another Play Day

This weeks experiment was trying monoprinting. I used a gelatin mold as my print plate from Rayna Gilman's book"Creating your own hand-printed cloth". The technique was simple, make a mold with non-flavored gelatin, spread some paint over it, make an impression on the paint and press fabric over the mold. I used previously hand-dyed fabric, and seta color and opague paints.

The first print I used bubble wrap on a lavender fabric and violet paint.


Second print I used flower stamps on white fabric and a blue paint. Around the edges I stamped excess paint from the stamps to give a negative print.

The last set I used a green fabric and a fern and an unknown weed and then ghost printed each.

To end the day I sun-printed on a batik with some weed leaves with an olive green paint.

This technique gave some great results and a wiggly-giggly feeling. Everything is fun with jello!