today's ATC is another leaf!!
Felt, Wire, Silver thread, green stranded cotton, running stitch, couching, chain stitch.
I was looking at the
colouricious site in response to their newsletter, and found a gorgeous
landscape by
Ineke Berlin. This one is also gorgeous, too.'
Ineke uses Lutradur for her landscapes and because it is a non woven fabric, there are no fraying problems. I thought I would have a go at it. I have lutradur, but I looked around to see what other nonwovens I had.
I found some nappy lines, some face wipes and baby wipes and for good measure, I added some tea bag paper.
Since they were all very thin, I layered them up, so that ant paint going through would go onto the fabric below, and I decided to use the
kids paint brushes I bought the other day. (Instead of throwing out the paint - nothing goes to waste around here!)
Here is a baby wipe painted. I was using primary colours, nothing very nature like about that, but I will show you how I changed the contrast and colours in a bit.
Tea bag paper - very translucent and yummy!
and some nappy liner - you can see here the colours are much more natural and the contrast is more blended in. I did this by doing something I often do when painting fabrics for landscape. I roll the fabric together to blend the paints. In these two above, I rolled the fabric into a sausage and then rolled it between my hands. In other samples, I scrunch and roll into a ball and roll between my hand, and this gives a more blotchy pattern rather than the streaks you see here.
My group of tea bag papers. Because these were so see through, I didn't blend the colours by scrunching.)
Here are some of the face wipes and baby wipes. you can see the bottom right, green one was scrunched rather than rolled.
More baby wipes and some nappy liners. The two nappy liners at the bottom show clearly the difference between rolling and scrunching with these very thin materials,
All in all, a very successful session. Now, I need to do a bit of work on my sketch of the creek, which is what I want to use this for. and start cutting ripping, arranging and sewing. Hopefully, I'll have something to show by next week, although I still have one deadline today week to get done! (It will be down to the wire as usual for me)
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