I thought I'd try painting on silk twill again - only this time, I used fabric paints rather than watercolours. It's nearly dry in the pic above, so I'll be setting it aside soon for quilting. (But maybe first I'll fix the persepctive on that rail fence - maybe thicken it up and add some more leaves!)
However, to get to the how to - I started with about 1/4 tsp. white fabric paint and added just a drop of azure blue to about a 1/4 tsp base extender.
Mixed up, it looked like this. A lovely pale greeny blue. I forgot to take pics as I went along (I got so into what I was doing) - but on the cloth it looked like white, with just the slightest hint of blue - which is what I wanted for the clouds.
Then I used my handy dandy mini colour wheel to mix up some other colours.
A blue-er blue for the sky (remember, with fabric paints, all colours look wayyyyy more intense on the pallete than they'll end up on your fabric - but do some test swatches to get more comfortable.) Here are from left red/orange/blue (for those burgundy orangey leaves) copenhagen blue and goldenrod for a green, goldenrod and azure blue for another green, and just plain straight from the bottle green - all were mixed with base extender to produce:
Which were all of the leaves. Unfortunately, I just mixed as I went to make the browns and the greys, which was really dumb of me because now I have to figure out how to make some more grey, greige and beige that matches my already existing fence. (gulp!)
Wish me luck on that, and btw, how are all of you?
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Looks good. Think you have developed a love affair with trees. I love trees too.
ReplyDeleteCarol, it's funny you should say that. :)
ReplyDeleteAbout two years ago, I had this grand(iose) idea that I would a tree series. Three different kinds of trees in four seasons. Fabulous! I started doing my spring tree and failed miserably (in fact, my spring tree got chopped up and became "November"); and the idea sort of petered out.
The other day, BSP said to me - "Your tree series is coming along nicely." and I was all, "Umm, what?"
And then I was all: "Ohhhhhhhhhh....."
lol
If somebody asked me to describe your work I would probably mention trees as a theme, too ;-)) This one looks already very good to me! Good luck with the color matching issue!! (and yes, I'm the other one who never takes notes ... and sometimes regrets it ...)
ReplyDeleteKit, I am a quiet visitor to your blog and enjoy it very much. I am a tree person as well, which seems to be an odd thing to those who live in this area. I do not know many people who do quilt and paint on fabric so I do so enjoy your work---even the work that doesn't include trees. Nicely done!
ReplyDeleteKit it’s a lovely painted quilt. You’re still working on it but it already looks so good. And ya good luck for the color matches. :)
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