Recycling

Back in the studio yesterday, enjoying my cleared off table.

I'm putting together a number of ideas for magazine articles. All center around surface design with materials from the kitchen.

I started playing with some of the recyclables again. This time it's cardboard and brown paper.

Enjoying the textures.

 

I did manage to get to Home Depot  yesterday and found a whole section with grids... burlap, deer fencing, even metal fencing for chickens! I also found rolls of the weed control fabric that I talked about in an earlier post.

I bought a selection of materials and will try experimenting with some of them this week.

Printing on Weed Control Fabric

Today, I finally got to experiment with the piece of weed control fabric that I got from Brian, The Gardener.

Brian in his veggie garden

Brian is my friend, Laura's husband. He has an amazing vegetable garden and has been experimenting with weed control fabric to contain his veggie beds.

Weed control fabric

When I took a look at the weed control fabric, the first thing I thought was Lutradur! Although it is a dark green, it is the same type of spun bonded polyester. I thought "ah ha", I bet I could paint and print on it!

So today, I gave it a try and "yes", it is possible to both paint and print on it.

I first applied the Pebeo Setacolor Opaque Fabric Paints with a foam brayer

I found applying the paint with a foam brush more successful.

 I thought, how wonderful to print some of my carved weed blocks on weed control fabric!

 I am thinking that there is the potential for some art pieces and I will have to get my hands on some more of it.

When I was visiting Laura and Brian in Virginia Beach, the vegetable garden was producing bowls of beautiful radishes. I told Brian about Earl Middleton who was my family's neighbor. When we were young Earl used to take us on fishing trips in his RV and his favorite sandwich was peanut butter and radishes. I used to love those nutty but crunchy sandwiches! I haven't had one in who knows how many years...I just had to have one today.