Friday, July 6, 2012

Brayer Rubbings with Weeds


In addition to working on the yellow challenge fabric and fabrics for the hamsa piece, I decided to continue with fabrics for the Weed Maps.

I went out into the weed garden and found a vine with large leaves. My plan...to make at least one piece of fabric using these leaves to do brayer rubbings. A while back, I started experimenting with What Ifing with the weeds and brayer rubbings was one of the techniques that proved to be quite successful.

I arranged the leaves under the fabric with the more textured (veiny) back sides facing up. With my foam brayer, I rolled Pebeo Setacolor Opaque Fabric Paint over the top of the fabric using different colors to pick up the texture of the leaves.


I did two lengths of fabric. In the first one, I applied the paint too thick in some areas. I'm going to paint a dark color wash over that piece.



The second piece was more successful.


I plan to do more pieces using different weeds. I want to build a stash of these fabrics so I have lots of choices and possibilities for the final art pieces.

4 comments:

  1. Love the results you got with this. Will enjoy seeing them turn up in other projects.

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    1. Thanks, Jo. I'm having a lot of fun! Planning to make many large sample fabrics using different weeds so I'll have lots to choose from once fall comes.

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    1. Hey thanks! How was your trip across the pond?
      Hope it's a lot cooler in London. We're going to be in the 100s today also code red...Ugh...summer in DC.
      Off to teach my wrapped doll, Jazzy today.

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