Flowers are hard to make

Well, the last few days have been a blur of Tulips and Roses. They make making Fuchsia's seem like a piece of cake!
What do you think?

 #drawing #rose #tulip #flower

Dun dun duuuuuunnnn.....

Final collections are all complete! WOOH! I've spent most of the day in the print room, freezing, gluing stuff to foil so I can finish them...

Anyways, here are my Embroidery ones:

These were done on cotton sateen (apart from the first one, that was some kind of wool that wasn't very nice to use) and have been done using various hand and machine stitches as well as some applique and dyeing.

And my printed ones:

These were done on habotai silk and cotton sateen using various procion and acid pastes, discharge pastes, pigments and some foiling. (The first 4 are silk and just look so nice, I think I have a slight obsession with silk - I did loads of work in AS Level with it too)

 

 I know they're a bit small but I think if you click them they get bigger and you can have a proper look. If they dont and you really want to see some more detail then just say and I can put them up big!

More prints, with exciting new bits!

 Oooooh! We've had some more fun printing and some of the stuff we've done has been so cool!

We've done foils - where you print this special glue through your screen, wait for it to dry then iron the foil over it (you have to remember to put it with the colour up or it wont work, I keep putting it the wrong way round...), wait for it to cool down and peel it off and you're left with a beautiful shimmery bit!

 Then we had heat transfer and expantex/minerfoam which was almost as fun as the foils - the heat transfer thing works best on manmade fabrics like the one I used here and you paint a special paint onto paper in blocks/a pattern, and put it face down onto the fabric - you can trap things between like lace/buttons/paperclips/wool etc that leave a white mark - and put it in the heat transfer press till its cooked and it does this!

The Expantex/minerfoam stuff is very exciting - you print a normal looking paste through your screen and nothing happens till you iron it on the back and then it all starts to expand and puff up so it's 3D and textured! (Thats what I did the Rose in on this piece)

This is heat transfer on silk - it doesn't take the colouring up as well as it's a natural fabric so you're left with a really pale image that I quite like. Although it has come through quite well on the bit that has masking tape behind it!

This one is a mix of all the other printing techniques here (apart from the heat transfer) The big branch is just pigment printed, the little one is expantex and the rose is foils.

Final Piece Numero Deux

Finally finished my second final piece for my embroidery collection! Tra laa!

And, since I actually quite like this one, I've got some close ups of my fave bits for you...

Hope you like it too :)

More Sketchbook and other things

Heres some more delights for you all, enjoy!


We're starting with my slight obsession with roses...

 This is a tapestry from Bowes Museum that I copied onto my page, dyed the page with red dye and painted the lines with bleach to leak the colour out. I actually really like this technique, but there are a few areas where I put too much bleach on, whops!

My seaside drawing set, all the stuff I collected was covered in sand which got all over my work bay - delightful to work in...