Here it is the last week of October, and yesterday we had a beautiful, sunny, warm perfect day for painting fabric. Until I started pulling out supplies, I didn't realize how long it had been since I had done any painting. I usually get much painting done the last weeks of Sept. through the first couple weeks of October, but with preparing for the guild quilt show, and traveling to GA, I lost a lot of painting days. I still had not unpacked my paints from taking them to my last show for demonstrating. That was the first part of September!
Here are the results of yesterday's puddling.
When taking photos of the sparkly paints, they seem to jump off the fabric with the flash.
For this piece, I used a couple new paints I picked up a while ago. They are a different brand that I usually use. I found a metalic mossy green, and a copper metallic. They are mixed in with my usual green, yellow, and a hint of blue to give the feel of fall colors on a sunny, blue sky day like yesterday.
Rainbows!! Summer may be gone, but I felt like playing with my bright colors to do a bunch of rainbow fabric. Here is one of the Fat Quarters.
The photos below show another FQ from the front, and the smaller photo of the back. I love the way the backs look!
A Salted rainbow front and back. The salt makes such interesting patterns.
Here is a full yard of fabric I painted in rainbow fashion, showing both the front and back. I mostly paint fat quarters, because they are a smaller size to deal with, and the fabric usually doesn't try to begin drying before I get all the paint on. I had a customer this summer ask if I could paint a full yard, so I gave it a whirl.
I really prefer painting the smaller pieces. It's really hard to stay farily uniform across the whole piece, but that is the best part of painting my own fabrics, I never know just what I will end up with at the end of a painting session. Sometimes the pieces I like the least when wet, end up being some of my favorites after drying, they change so much.
Final photo of this post. I looked out my front window, near sunset a couple days ago, and saw how my grass looked, backlit by the sun. It didn't come out as I had expected, but It is interesting anyway. I love the way the grass heads look like they're made of gold, and shimmering. Next time, I'll have to try a bit earlier with the sun above the trees in the far background.
Now to play with some new fabrics, and come up with a few wintery pieces for the coming holiday selling season.
I am a former textile artist and new pattern designer with a degree in horticulture, wishing to share my love of nature, flowers and gardens with everyone through my photos, sunprinted fabrics, and now pattern designs. Chronic Lyme Disease has caused major changes to the direction my life. I have to limit the amount of time spent digging in my gardens, and quilting has become more difficult. I discovered pattern design as a way to get art back into my life. I now use my gardens and photos to inspire designs that can be used on fabrics and print on demand items.
