Art Cloth Day 2

Last week was day 2 of the Art Cloth workshop at Littleheath Barn.  I blogged about Day 1 here.   In between these days I did some monoprinting and added the papers to my sketchbook.

When we arrived for day 2 our screens were waiting for us to do the breakdown printing.  My screen looked like this with the bubblewrap still on it.

I peeled off the bubblewrap ready for action.

 I used manutex print paste through the screen onto the fabric.

By the time I had done several prints on fabric and on pages of my sketchbook the screen looked like this.

 We moved on to using masking tape as a mask on the screen.

I used Robin's Egg Blue thickened dye through the screen, printing over the same piece of fabric, sometimes turning the screen the other way round.

My sketchbook pages from the screen printing.

This has become a rather long post with lots of photos, so I am going to stop here and continue in another post on Saturday.

Thanks for joining me today.

Bernice

Traverse at the NEC

For four days in March, the ladies of Traverse exhibited their work on the theme of Destinations.  Cath has written a brilliant blog post about it.

Here, I'm going to share photos of my work.  This is Pathways.

Venice Hanging

Venice Tiles

The various Venice inspired books

A rare photo of me.  Here I'm demonstrating how to make mixed media books.

And the little zigzag book I made over three days.

On Sunday I began to make a fabric scroll book.

Since the show I have put together this video using photos from different members of the group.  Enjoy!

We have set up our own YouTube channel and hope to put new videos up every now and again.

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice

Snapshot Girls Photos

I belong to a Ladies Photography group called Snapshot Girls.  Each month we submit 5 photos on a theme.   

January's theme was Christmas

 

 and February's theme was Winter.

If you like the idea of taking 5 photos on a theme you could try joining Sandie in her 5 in 5 challenge on her blog.

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice