Art Cloth Day 2 part 2

Earlier in the week I showed you what I had been doing on the Art Cloth workshop.  We had a really busy day.  So far I have shown you the breakdown printing and the masking tape printing.

We moved on to using soya wax.  I didn't get on with it at all.  I suspect it's a technique you really need to practise.

Then we moved on to making stencils and masks from newspaper.   I made a spiral.  I used brown thickened dye to print through the paper stencil.  I used blue which turned green because I didn't wait for the brown spirals to dry when using the mask.

At home I decided I would tray dye this fabric to get rid of the white.

I mixed Old Gold in one pot and Merlot (dye powder not the wine) in the other.

And poured it on.  At this point I was not particularly hopeful because I hadn't really followed the instructions for dyeing.

I left it soaking for several hours before rinsing and drying.  Here's both sides of the fabric.

I don't like it much but then I often don't.  Next time I'll print on it with acrylic or fabric paint and the time after we're trying out Formosul so maybe I'll be able to calm the colour down a bit.

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice

Day 17 My Attitude of Gratitude Journal

If you want to join in with making an Attitude of Gratitude Journal through the month of November click through to the Challenge blog.

Here on this blog I am going to share how I made the page for today's prompt on Laughter.

Today's art challenge was to 'use a mask somewhere on your page'.

I sprayed the page with lemon, orange and chocolate inks. I added a spritz of water and moved the paper so the inks blended.

Do you remember the leaves I cut out to make a stencil on November 7th?  Well here I am using the leaves as masks.

I sprayed over the leaves with pink and then moved the leaves and sprayed again.  The pink mixed with the other colours to produce a deep orange.

I highlighted some of the leaves using the stencil to draw with and stamped the hearts before adding the verse.

I outlined the verse and added my journaling.

I love how simple this was to do and yet looks as though it has far more layers than are there.

What will you use as a mask today?