When I had my great fabric decorating spree in January, some of my favourite pieces are those I screenprinted with Gocco screens. I used natural dye extracts mixed with gum tragacanth as a print paste/binder.
Continuing the series on mud and footprints, I made a screen of these bird prints. I actually made a tiny stamp from an eraser, printed the back of an envelope with it, and scanned it into the computer. I then made it bigger and made it into a screen.
A close up:
I then stuck torn masking tape over an empty screen and printed over the bird prints:
I’ll be interested to see how these turn out when I wash them. I have to leave them for a few months to batch. The longer the better, really. And I don’t plan to use them for a while so they might as well sit there….
This fabric below was printed first with torn corrugated cardboard, then printed with a couple of screens made of brick patterns.
And this one is a screen of a tree, made from a photograph I took on one of my walks:
I printed the same screen with colours getting gradually darker. I also printed some fabric using the same screen and another screen of a letter.
If you read this in Google Reader or another feed reader, you probably won’t notice that I’ve changed the blog ‘theme’. I changed to this one because it is very easy to alter the way the page looks and I want to try and incorporate my website into the blog so it all looks the same and I think I can do it with this one without messing too much with the code. But if you find anything’s not working for you in your particular browser, do let me know and I’ll try and change it. The header, by the way, is rotating, which means you might see a different picture up there each time you come to the blog! Fun, eh?!!
Before I finish this post, Judy Nolan from the Etsy Boomers Street Team, of which I’m a member, has written a great blog post about the way different people get ideas for their work and capture them. She got lots of us to tell her what we all do and how we all go about things! I think it’s definitely worth reading. You can find it on the Boomers’ blog here.
