More collages from last autumn - this time from an A5 sketchbook: the first two use ink drawings of beetles from the Leeds City Museums collection. Top - cut-out beetle on paper rubbed with soft pastel, plus paper coated with oil pastel, then indian ink, scratched and rubbed back; bottom one uses paper printed with iridescent paint, bought textured paper and paper monoprinted with lacy pattern from an almost exhausted marbling tray.
Above - wet-on-wet watercolour paper, wet-on-dry paper, plus monoprinted paper.
Two more using marbled papers. Above - three different cut marbled papers, plus coloured pencil lines. Below: oil-marbled paper with added pale water-colour and wet watercolour pencil lines plus translucent blue tracing-paper overlay.
Two using photoshopped photograph prints plus cut watercoloured paper and (in the bottom one) torn sugar-paper.
Top: monoprinted and marbled papers. Bottom: scrunch-dyed tissue paper, bits of linoprint sampler, and watercolour "bullseye".
Many thanks for the comments on the earlier ones, and - yes - they are feeding into my quilting. Plus being fun, and a good way of exploring composition. All done very quickly as a sort of creative "starter" for the day.
Hi Sandra,
ReplyDeleteI was so pleased to find your blog and wanted to get in touch just to say Hi and Thank you.
Many years ago, I found a beautiful book in a book shop on dyeing to quilt. As much as I loved it, I was neither a dyer or quilter so I put it back. The next year, I found the same book was equally captivated, but decided that as it was American the dyes would not be available in the UK - and put it back again. A year on, I found the same book (different book shop) and gave in to fate. I bought it, and bought my first dyes from you. I still remember my phone call with you, how friendly you were. I told you that I loved bronzes and with the parcel, you enclosed a card giving me instructions to dye rusts, bronzes and golds. If you go to my blog www.quiltingworkshop.blogspot.co.uk you can see the quilt that I made from your instructions under 'about me'. I still dye all my own fabric and am now heavily into free motion quilting. I did try to track you down several years ago, but couldn't find you on the web - maybe my fault - so I was so please to come across you now. Many thanks for your kindness all those years ago. You (and the book!) set me off on a journey that I am still on. I shall now also enjoy coming across to your blog and keeping and eye out on what you are doing!
Hilary Florence