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