My name is Charlotte, sometimes known as Ms Lottie, occasionally as The Slightly Mad Quilt Lady. This is my blog, where you'll find me writing a lot about my quilting and textile arts and a little about my family's life in a small seaside town in New Zealand. Haere mai!

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Ghostly


Here's a sequence of photographs showing what happened to one of my white fat quarters.  You can see the black lines drawn with a fabric marker in a rough grid pattern underneath.  Then I scraped on red fabric paint with a tiling tool.


I diluted some of the red paint with water and used a foam brush in another grid pattern.  I put it out to dry with bits and pieces on to try and get a sun print but that didn't work.  No matter.


A week or so later, my daughter was painting with acrylics and squeezed out way too much.  So I mixed her colours up with some textile medium, ironed down some leftover freezer paper shapes I had and rolled (using a brayer) the paint over the shapes.  


That technique wasn't so successful.  The brayer would catch the edge of the freezer paper and roll it up around itself and so I couldn't go back to cover the shape entirely.  


But I'm still really happy with it.  I like the ghostly image.  The not-quite-there glimpse, which is similar to the flash of bird you often see in real life.  Just an impression as it flits by.


What do you think?


6 comments:

  1. Beautiful work. I like the idea of a ghostly image better than something too stark.
    Makes me want to try something similar.

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  2. Successful experiment. Similar to how some batik images are half exposed.

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  3. Very cool! Wishing you a magical Christmas!

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  4. Very cool technique, Charlotte! I very much do like it :o)

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  5. I like this very much and am trying to decide if I've got the "ump" to try something like it....hmmm....

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  6. Like that very much :)

    Merry Christmas

    viv

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