More colour with silk, latex and felt

Wanted to try some silk painting, bought a meter of silk €10 and then some silk paints also around €10

You have to stretch the material over a frame and off you go. It was nice to let the paint just flow along the silk, it lightly blends into the material didn't paint anything in particular just went with the flow

Added some rock salt to the material but it would have been more effective if I had done it when the material was wetter

Next I tried latex with colour, very interesting I filled a few small containers with latex then added a different colour ink to each container, poured them along a piece of acetate in a swirling motion the pattern of floating dandelion seeds. At first the colours looked very light I didn't know how much ink to add, next morning when the latex had dried it was much darker but when I held it up to the window it looked good.

After doing this I thought about my latex trees and reused them to make some more patterns

I did some weaving with the latex and when it was held up against the light I liked the translucent effect

Next I tried to do some felting had never seen it done but one of my tutors showed me how to do it

Break off small pieces of wool fibre and wrap around a ball

Wet the ball with hot soapy water and manipulate until the wool becomes firm and tight and shrinks against the ball

Next I wanted to do a bigger ball

This is hard work, you would want big hands!!!

After much manipulation this is what I ended up with until it was put into the washing machine for 30 mins.

I got this interesting little felt hat

Just did this felt picture here during the holls

More Paint

Hung this up threw some paint on it and the falling drops made this

Some close ups which look interesting especially the drop which looks like an eye!

All the above were poster paint

The two below are water colour done on acetate

These next two are done with ink and a few grains of salt

Painting

Only started to experment with paint late last week. I tried everything else first as painting would be my favorate, (leave the best wine till last)! I hope I still like it. One of my tutors took me around to the other classes to see what a variety of paint work was being done, very interesting especially one where paint was dripping down from tiered square platforms, very impressive.

Even this looks nice and that's the sink in our room as I washed my pallette.

My first experiment was to hang up one of my paper pods of old and squirt some paint on it and see what happens, while my back was turned it collapsed!  Then hung up a bottle and tried the same. The paint was too thick poured a little oil over it to hurry it along but the oil made a bit of a mess. Anyway this was ok because I took it down rolled it on paper and it looked like a tyre track  

These last two are a result of pressing my paint covered paper pod into paper and acitate. Dare I say I enjoyed this.

Print

Tried printing only last week for the first time should have tried it earlier but it was clashing with other things. Anyway brought my little mat thing and my cutting tools. The mat thing I bought was some newish product supposed to be easier than lino to cut into. It was fine but both sides looked the same so wasn't sure which side to cut on.

It does look better than the photo, on the glass rolled out brown colour half way and the same brown mixed with transparent, that gave it the fading out appearance

Zoomed in photo had an interesting textural appearance

I liked this one, it reminded me of an aboriginal drawing