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The sample at the bottom is rubbing over textured wallpaper with wax crayons on cotton fabric. The wax highlights the pattern and acts as a resist, then I went over the top with watered down acrylic paints
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A rough monoprint onto cotton
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Monoprinting made by painting onto a flat surface and pressing the fabric onto the paint to take a print. "Monoprint" usually means you only really get one good print, but I managed to take another print from the same paint which I really liked because it was more subtle. I outlined the shape with machine stitching
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For this sample I painted onto bondaweb, cut the shape out and ironed the painted bondaweb onto white cotton, then added some very simple machine stitching
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A machine stitched fern shape made using variegated quilting thread and the zig zag stitch setting
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A collected fern, pressed then trapped between cotton and plastic, then stitched round to secure
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Sun printing
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Finally, this is me playing with my stitched monoprint picture in David Hockney photo collage style
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4 comments:
Dear Carolyn,
your blog and picture are a great inspiration.
Have a nice week.
LG,
Helga
I love the glimpse of your sketchbook! This is art. It cheers my soul.
Inspirational glimpse of your sketchbook Carolyn. I often take samples of textured wallpapers for my mixed media work but had not thought of using them as rubbing plates for fabric. That's a great idea!
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