Tuesday, 31 July 2012

A THOUSAND PAPER CRANES

This week saw a continuation of the stenciling, but yet again, developing it a step further by printing on to fabric.
In this case, the stencils were printed on to white cotton fabric bags… ready to use!

The trick to remember with this, is to put folded sheets of newspaper inside the bag, so that the paint doesn’t bleed through both the front and the back of the bag.

The technique takes longer when working on fabric, and at a larger scale.


Some of the designs require intricate and careful cutting out.

 “It was more fiddly than I realised and took longer”.


Other designs lend themselves to overprinting, so the initial base colour was printed and left to dry.
 “ one minute I was enjoying myself, the next it was the end of the session!”




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