For the last session of Textile Explorations, Liske suggested various activities. One was something she had learned from Jayne Emerson called 'Crashing'.
I had a go at it. It involves a layer of fabric, a layer of Bondaweb and a layer of water soluble fabric. I machined my grid very evenly.
After steaming it looked a lot like smocking!
I used a gelli plate to print onto another piece of fabric, using the 'smocking' to make a pattern in the paint.
The paint on the 'smocking'.
One of the other activities was to repeat the grid activity that we did in January but without the watercolour wash.
I didn't do it at the Studio. I wanted to do it at home as I wanted to use all things gridlike to print with.
I used a Posca pen to write on the fabric and then Indigo acrylic paint to print with.
When that had dried I added white. Hard to see! After that had dried I used Payne's Grey for the last layer of print.
Here are the masking tape strips after I had taken them off the fabric and put them onto a large sheet of paper.
Thanks for joining me today
Bernice
WHAT FUN BERNICE. LOVE IT ALL.❤️
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