Today I went to a meeting of ATASDA Vic (Australian textile art and surface design association), so hi to any of you surfing the web. We had a great day and had a silk paper demo from Elma who creates lichen inspired sculptures using crochet. Fascinating
Today's ATC is decidedly floral
I used a piece of the collage background I made
here. The flower is some rolled organza and satin petals and the text is printed on a transparency. bound with organza ribbon.
I followed a link from
Lisa's blog to that of an extraordinary artist,
Marilyn rock. I was inspired to create some stamped tissue papers like she showed in her
video, but I decided instead to print on the tissue with my computer.
As you can see, they printed quite well. I actually used greaseproof or kitchen paper instead of tissue, but I'm sure if you ironed the tissue out flat it would work. I just tend to use kitchen paper for layering tissue as it's cheap and works well. The images I used were from
the graphics fairy.
I used a gluestick to glue the paper to the top of a piece of printer paper. (I put an oversized piece of tisse paper on and trimmed it down after I glued it)
I found it ran through the printer quite easily.
And as you can see the print is excellent. I can't wait to use these in collage. I did find, however that the images bled if I used matte medium, but if I used neat white glue, this was minimised, But I will show more about this in a later post.
Thanks for the lovely comments yesterday. As always, it is the supposed mistakes that people like the best, lol, but I appreciate them all the same.
Now, I need to get into my sketchbook because I have an idea for my
balance challenge!
Have fun creating - and do it all the time!
