Fabric Painting Again, Finally!!

For some reason, I have decided to try more mixed groupings of leaves and flowers. It is a bit trickier, since this piece shown in the first 2 photos was a full yard of fabric. It takes a while to get the paint on, then add the leaves and flowers, etc. All has to be placed before the drying starts. To do full yard sizes, I put the fabric directly on my large, sunny table. I have a 4 ft. square piece of thin plywood somewhere, I need to find it, then I can paint in the shade of my new tent area. My other worry with this yard was that just as I finally got the leaves, etc. on, the sky got dark, like a storm was brewing. Not good for sunprinting. Luckily, most of the prints came out OK. I did get in a bit of a hurry, and due to high humidity, the fabric under larger leaves had not completed drying after nearly 2 hours, and have some dark centers.

I played with squirting on yellow paint from a small bottle, instead of brushing it on in some areas. The effect in the lower piece, especially, made some neat effects.  The next time I try this, I will have my materials ready better. I was digging through my pressed leaves in paper, while the paint was trying to start drying- lots of spraying with water to keep things wet.

The mud and rocks are back, too. I still have pictures in my mind of the rocky roadsides, and played with these two pieces. I painted the deeper colored one on the left, first then added some green and gold metallic. I then added a dry piece of fabric placed over the first, brushed the rose onto the top (back of piece #2) and pressed them together while brushing. I then scrunched and lay the pieces separately on the rock pile in our side yard that was to house a swimming pool. The lichens on the rocks helped to make some neat patterns.

I'll see what happens today, still humid, but sunny.