“Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez”
More samples of flour/paste technique below.
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My best results were always on bleached or unbleached muslin. I like the effect on all the fabrics…always different. I have not had good success working with black fabric.
Here’s the orange fabric with the faces that insisted on existing. I think I could spend the rest of my life crackling fabric and looking for images that desire to exist. I am pretty addicted…Help!! I can’t stop…smile I heavily stippled the background. It was such a small area I used the built in stipple stitch and feed dogs up. I tiny satin stitched the outline for more emphasis. Mock frame is ornamental lace mitered at corners. Click photo for larger view. Thanks—>cj
Here’s more results from the flour/paste crackling technique. Click photo for larger view.
The fabric sample used for the black was a stretchy hemp. It has the feel of skin you are left with after skinning a catfish,,,,the texture even looks the same….Kewl!
The purple has a wale like courduroy but light to the touch.
The blue…what can I say….awesome. The peachy red is really the back side of a red metallic. The metallic washes completely away taking the flour with it…leaving the original fabric color….Some how the backside received paint..(the other metallic samples did not bleed thru, not sure if this one did..think it may have picked it up from the freezer paper as I lifted and moved to encourage drying) .and this was the result..Again…I won’t wash away the flour from metallics…I’l preserve it with a special spray I purchased from the Crafty PC called preserving memories. I like the leathery look…I used 5 metallics on the samples. I now have five inch squares in gold, silver, bronze and red, and antique white….WOO HOO!
Who knew that something a two year old could do would produce results to make me feel like an expert…smile….Just like life…I am learning as I go….and truly enjoying the ride….but please don’t ever confuse me with an expert on anything….I’m just playing one on the world wide web….smile…thespian…
I have been hoping to find time to try painting the flour/water paste onto fabric for the crackling effect. In light of the untimely passing of Bernie Mack and Issac Hayes…I decided that I must take’ the time to do the things I desire to. Here’s some observations:
Its a messy job…but somebody has to do it…smile I am working with a Sample pack of various Hemps. Got the pack form Dharma Trading. They are only barely 5 inch squares.
I am liking what is going on underneath….possible frame stencils….I’d better file that away…
Metallic paints will not work…but they did produce a cool very authentic looking leather look……However…I will not rinse the flour away…I will use a perservative to keep that leathery look and use the 5 samples I used metallic paint on for leather look adornments…
I rinsed the flour out of the regular paint samples. I rotated this orange sample until faces appeared.
OOP! There it is!..I used a thin marker to define the faces.
The purple sample is screaming to me that it wants to be a forest or something…The metallic gold wants to be buttons..the orange faces insisted on existing…I will stipple the background so the faces can pop out properly…Keep in mind that the little sample is barely a 5 inch square…I am giddy with glee….thinking about what I shall do with it…I love ity-bitys. The green sample is so interesting. I am liking the effect flour paste has on different kinds of fabrics…I learned lots…I wish I had kept better track of which fabric sample is what…I have all their name tags…but should have come up with a layout system….I want to reproduce the purple but can’t remember which hemp it was….Valuable lesson learned.
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