Completing the Tyvek sunflower In my previous post, I described how I made a sunflower from Tyvek. I got as far as making a mock-up to see how the petals might be arranged, and I still had the centre of the flower to make. I cut a 2-inch circle of Tyvek from a…
What is Tyvek and how can we use it? Tyvek is a non-woven high density polyethylene membrane manufactured by American company DuPont, used in the building trade to wrap buildings. It is water-resistant but pervious to water vapour (breathable), resistant to tearing, but easy to cut. It is immensely strong and flexible. There…
My wonderful ghastly pink cheap bathmat! I got this monstrosity on Ebay. Not for my bathroom, but for art! (The bathmat mask in the photo is what I designed to cut from Tyvek - all the shapes are there, but not the additional texture provided by the suction cups on the underside of…
Does anyone deserve to have as much fun as I am having at the moment? Playing with my new stencils and masks, and my gel press, are giving me soooo much pleasure! Spraying inks and making a glorious mess I began by testing out my new Oriental script block stencils that I wrote…
Just a few stragglers from yesterday's session in the studio. I decided I wanted to make some stencils to go with the Oriental script masks. I also made another scallops one, which ended up as a mask rather than a stencil - when I cut it, the whole of the middle fell out!…
Shoshi is going to need rehab! I can well understand why people say that gel printing is addictive. I can't remember when I had so much fun in my studio as I had this afternoon, trying out my new stencils with the gel plate. There is something incredibly satisfying about brayering the paint…
Shoshi's brainstorm When I was doing the work for the last blog post on the subject of my stencils, I think I was having some sort of brainstorm! Later, I couldn't believe how stupid I'd been - somehow I was unable to wrap my head around the whole stencil/mask business, and added bridges…
CELEBRATING THE IMPERFECT In a previous post, I described how one of the embellished teabags for my art journal page hadn’t worked out right, and before I ditched it, I looked at the back and realised that I could use it after all, where the ink had soaked through. I had a lovely…
I have not blogged for a while because I have been extremely busy designing stencils and masks for my new gel press. This has been very time-consuming as Inkscape, the powerful free vector drawing program, is a continuous learning curve for me and I have encountered various problems along the way which took…
Fun with teabags I do love teabag art! Yesterday I began a new page in my beautiful Organic Journal, by decorating a dozen teabags to stick down in a grid pattern as a kind of teabag design sampler. I kept the colour palette limited to black, white and copper (gorgeous metallic acrylic paint)…
