Solar Fast - Part 2

These are some of  my results!

Our work 'cooking' on the driveway!

Nancy has a drying rack that works perfect for holding our pieces after they were rinsed out.

This was one of my pieces.  I painted on yellow first, then blue, then laid some stencils, which were held down with a piece of glass.

This was Sepia paint with some blueprint film on top

I mixed some thickener with Solar Fast paint and screen printed these leaves

Yellow on top of some Sepia and again stencil laid on top.

I was given this screen with written words on it by my friend, Mary, back in Michigan.  Thanks, Mary!!!

This was black thickened Solar Fast I screen printed onto white fabric.  I love this for a background  piece!

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Red and blue Solar Fast with different stencils laid on top.  Again, held down with glass.

This was a piece I had screen printed but didn't get much color with....so I painted on more yellow, purple and violet Solar Fast, laid different stencils, held with glass.

Solar Fast Day Part 1

We met for a day playing with both Solar Fast and Inkodye (which is a product discontinued but JoAnn's or Michael's still have some in stock!).  I've used Solar Fast before and enjoy the results and today we even played with screen printing using thickened Solar Fast using a thickener I purchased.  You can order Solar Fast at Dharma Trading and other online stores.

Here are some of Nancy and Beth's pieces from our play date last Saturday!  This was Nancy tryig to encourage her prints!

Nancy got some interesting results using stencils!

The dark blue piece was a  Cyano piece Nancy was playing with.  

I love the stencils Nancy used in both these pieces!

Pretty cool isn't it!

Nancy got a really subtle imprint using the Solar Fast on this piece.

Another nice stenciled piece by Nancy

Beth got busy right away!

Beth used some x-rays given to her.  The results weren't great for an imprint but it still would work for a background piece!

What was left after using the x-rays and Inkodye.  I really like it!

Beth used real leaves and different colors of Inkodye and I think she also used some Solar Fast as well.

If you look close,  you can see stencils of faces Beth did.  I suggested she paint Inkodye on top of the fabric (heavier coat) then lay the stencils back down and let the sun do it's magic!

Beth also used the writing thermofax and screen printed the tree and words.

Ginko leaves screen printed on Beth's dyed fabric.  very pretty!

Again, screen printed leaves on Beth's hand dyed or ice dyed fabric(s).

Bleeding Tissue Paper Day!

We  met at Beth's with her demonstrating using bleeding tissue paper on fabric and watercolor paper!  I think we got some good results...I'll post the finished pieces after next months get together!  Until then here was our day!

These are from class Nancy took a few years ago...good info!

Beth layering tissue paper

Soda ash water applied via spray/dropper/brush

Robbie's tissue on fabric

Nancy cutting tissue on fabric

Kathy's landscape

Kathy's landscape after she applied water!

Robbie's fabric covered

Same fabric but addition of commercial fabric laid on top

Beth's printed piece she didn't like...bet it's one of her favorites now!

Kathy's vase...I mean tree...I mean cat!!  We can't decide!

Beth layering tissue on watercolor paper

water applied...cool piece

Burning Tyvek - February 17, 2018

We used Lynda Monk's process from her book Fabulous Surfaces.    We learned quite a bit and the ladies created some cool pieces!  Nancy found some notes from a class she took and they suggested you not use Misty Fuse, which is what I had them use along with Wonder Under.  Nancy had great success with Steam A Seam 2, which seemed to keep the piece from bubbling so much.  Also, another note from Nancy:  use the iron without parchment paper - just use 
the tip of the iron and do it very quickly or you'll get too much 
bubbling.  I, personally, recommend using the acrylic or recycled felt 
under all of this, instead of using our padded and plastic paint pads.

Robbie's samples - fabric tyvek on left - paper tyvek on right

Robbie used acrylic paint on paper tyvek and Procion dyes on fabric tyvek

Nancy painting tyvek

Beth painting tyvek bubble envelope - didn't burn!  Good test!

More of Nancy's painted tyvek paper

Beth getting ready to burn tyvek

Nancy burning away!

Beth's burnt piece!  She ironed different painted strips.

Nancy's painted tyvek.  Cool!

Hard to see but I stamped and rolled Gesso on my piece

Another of my pieces with foiling and burnt tyvek fabric

Nancy's tyvek with foiling on borders

More of Beth using pieces of tyvek

Another of Beth's burning!

A great piece by Nancy!

More of Nancy's finished pieces!