Clean Up Cloth.......Sun Printing

My favorite part of working with Textile Paints

is creating

Clean Up Cloths

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Clean Up Cloth

Stewart Gill Colourise Paint

Last week, at the end of a painting session, I put all of the

leftover paint on a white piece of fabric.

Sometimes I wet the white fabric first, and sometimes I don't.

This time I left the white fabric dry, then poured the leftover

paint all over it and scrunched up the fabric.

I also sprinkled a little kosher salt on top.

The secret is to put it out in the sun.

That is when the magic happens.

Allow it to completely dry.

When you open it up you have a lovely

batik-like fabric.

Press it with a hot iron to set the paint.

Stewart Gill offers an excellent line of textile paints.

However, so does Pebeo/Setacolors

and Dye-Na-Flow.

They all perform well for Sun Printing on Fabric.

I have no affiliation with these products.

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Painted Fabric Results...

I painted fabric a few days ago...

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The majority of it dried quickly in the sun...

I wasn't able to show you the results of the last few pieces that were painted late in the day...

Remember this clean-up cloth?

Clean Up Cloth dried and pressed...

Detail of Clean-Up Cloth

The metallic gold paint was heavier and settled into the lower portions of the scrunched up fabric.

Clean-Up Cloths are my favorites!

Maybe I should just forget everything else and just make clean-up cloths?

This is the piece I painted with bubble wrap underneath it.

I painted this late in the day, with little sunshine left in the sky.

It never really dried properly, and I brought it indoors for the night.

I had to finish drying it in the morning sun the next day.

I want to try this technique again in the bright sunshine of the afternoon.

I think I will get more defined texture when this dries quickly in the hot sun.

Bubble Wrap Painted Piece

You can see circular patterns in the cloth

Detail of Bubble Wrap Piece

This was the piece that I sprinkled with ground up walnut shells.

It was one of my last pieces, and it was late in the day, with very little sunshine left to dry and sun dye this piece...

It never dried properly, and I had to bring it into the Thread Shed.

It was still wet the next morning....not what I hoped for.

I want to try this technique again in the hot day sun.

Walnut Shells

You can see a pale shadowing of the walnut shell design

Detail of Walnut Shells

The ground up shells give the fabric a grainy texture

I brought home some sand from the beach a few days ago...

I want to try sprinkling sand on painted fabric and see what happens.

That will have to wait until the Fabric Painting Workshop here on Thursday...

Stay Tuned!

Sunshine has finally arrived here in Western Oregon

Time to work in the flowerbeds...

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After all the weeding was done...

It was time to set up the soaker hoses

The sun was shining at the perfect angle and you can really see the water spraying from the soaker hoses...

After a day of pulling weeds...

it was rewarding to see the flowerbed looking so pretty.

Tomorrow.....more of the same.

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LuAnn

Painting Fabric...

Painting Fabric.....Play Day!

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Here are a few pieces that I painted yesterday...

Fabric is approx 21 x 30 inches

Fits nicely on a foam core board during the painting process.

I hung them on the line this morning because I thought it would be easier to photograph them that way...

Yup....as soon as I did....a strong wind came in and blew them around like the sails on a boat!

Sponged Summer Sky

Water

Salted and Folded to dry

Sun Dyeing

I placed a table runner on top of the wet paint, then put it out in the sun to dry.

Came out better than I had hoped for...

Desert Sunset

Autumn Sunset

Sunset over the Ocean

Salt sprinkled over the lower portion

Leftover paint....

Painted in horizontal lines, then folded the fabric accordion style and left to dry.

Mountains or Rocks

After painting, the fabric was scrunched up and put in the sun to dry.

Creates hills and valleys for the paint to accumulate.

Leftover Paint....

I used all of the leftover green paints, then folded it and left it in the sun to dry.

Ground up Walnut Shells

This piece is still drying...

I sprinkled ground up walnut shells on the wet paint, then put it out in the sun to dry.

Hoping the shells will act as a resist?

Bubble Wrap

I placed bubble wrap under the fabric...then painted and salted it.

Hoping the bubble wrap will cause hills and valleys and texturize the piece.

Clean Up Cloth

I just couldn't bare to throw out the leftover paints...

I scrunched up a piece of fabric and poured the last of the paints all over it.

I swiped it here and there with the brushes and sponges.

After it dries I will iron it and post a photo of it.

Clean up Cloths are my favorite!

Gunnr

He is keeping an eye on the last few pieces drying outside...

Just to make certain the birds don't fly over and make a deposit on them!

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I Smell Something Burning...

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Clean-Up Cloth Drying

There is always lots of leftover watered down paint from creating Fabric Paper

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Clean Up Cloth Rinsed, Dried & Ironed

I love the unpredictability of clean up cloths.

Just like a box of chocolates.....you never know what you're gonna get!

Clean Up Cloth Pink & Gold made Orange

Be sure to crunch the fabric up good, that creates the crevices where paint can settle into during the drying process....creating the batik marbled appearance.

Clean Up Cloth Blue Red Gold

This is my favorite one so far...

I could never duplicate this again, it was just luck to get this!

Clean Up Cloth Pink & Gold

I had way too much fabric paint on a piece I was painting, so I took a hunk of muslin and laid it on top to absorb some of the excess paint.....it made a cool piece of fabric.

I wish you could see how this shimmers...I had a shimmery glittery paint mixed in with the fabric paint and it is so sparkly.....doesn't show in the photos.

Clean Up Cloth Orange & Gold

Clean Up Cloth Red & Gold

Clean Up Cloth Green & Brown

I wasn't paying attention when I was painting fabric...I grabbed acrylic paint instead of the textile fabric paints I was using........I guess the color looked good.

When it dried, it was rather stiff....not soft and nice like the textile paint cloths.

This green cloth would work for a journal cover project.

Clean Up Cloth Purple & Gold

Again, I grabbed acrylic paint instead of the textile paint.

I was happy with the colors.

I was also in a hurry and decided to dry this piece in the microwave...

I read somewhere that you could dry it for 1 minute in the microwave...

So I did...

It wasn't long before I smelled something BURNING!

Clean Up Cloth.....Burned

Like I have told you before.....everything around here is one BIG experiment.

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LuAnn

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