Resource 6: Face Cast mold...more paper-making preparation....Project X

Just doing a bit of online "surfing"

And came across this You Tube video

Art Journal page

I want to be like this when I grow up!

Monday, Tues and Wednesday 

were spent cooking up more batches

of ginger pulp, saving the laundry water

to rinse the fibres, watching resource DVD's

and taking a mold from the face cast.

I also have been working on the canvas

project as well as the fabric printing

and thinking about what I'm 

going to do for my Alter Ego Mask.

Yesterday (Thursday) was my Mum's 75th Birthday. I made her a cake and decorated it. My theme was loosely fitted around her gift, a bird bath which incidentally, took way more time finding one I liked, than I bargained for! I am really happy how the cake turned out and as a family, we had a lovely evening together celebrating her life. (PICS to follow)

 Repainting the leaf printed "botch-up"

I cut in in half and painted the other side a sky blue

I have an "idea"  for this...

 I bought a second 30X30cm canvas 

and painted it with the mauve-coloured paint. 

This is for my Project X: Part 2

While that was drying I rewatched the DVD

so I could remember what to do for the cast mold

 Inside Vaselined and ready to go

 sitting on my paper "doughnut"

The Plaster of Paris
I made up half the suggested amount
as I didn't want to make up too much

 Weighing out the powder

 and measuring out the water

 The water in container the plaster will be mixed in

 I had this idea I would use a chop stick to mix the plaster...

 ..it didn't work..

 ..so it was IN with the hands, like Roger said to do!

 While the PoP was setting I rinsed out another 

batch of ginger pulp fibres for paper making..

 After an hour or so I tried releasing the mold

...it came out really easy...

 ...but, oh..it's was pretty rough-looking!

 Next time i know to spend a bit more time smoothing 

 the wet bandage to get all the creases out

 It looks terrible LOL!

 The mold and cast

..and a pretty leaf on a tree I walked past 

when I was out with Kaeli, the puppy.

I love the shape!

Time: 6 hours (1-3 April)

Resource 6: Face Cast Mold,

Paper-making pulp prep, 

Project X, Canvas,

Drawing into Paint,

Painting on Hessian

Adding pastel to paint, silhouettes and paint on fabric

I did a bit more work on the painted torso Thursday, adding pastels from my newly purchased box. I found a paint brush was a good way to brush off excess pastel dust and I'm starting to like this again.

I haven't quite finished yet.

I want to add some text...

Friday I searched online for and printed out a palm tree. 

 I cut around the outline then drew around it 

on some thin foam I had been given.

 Like so...

 I'm using Fastex Textile Ink

 and mixed the red and blue together 

to make this lovely deep maroon.

 What I hope it'll eventually look like

the foam "palms" mounted onto card

 It started off looking great...

 ....but then started to "bleed"....boohoo!

So I put that aside..

and got my next support ready ...hessian!

 Using the textile paints again

I have an idea with this which I'm looking forward to 

working on it once the paint has dried.

Time: 4 hours (21/22 March) 

Paint/pastels on wallpaper

Stamped silhouette/hand-dyed calico

Paint on hessian

Fabric Painting Lesson....Resource 4: Drawing for all your worth #4

Twice a week I give craft lessons. 

Usually it is sewing but occasionally

I'll do something "arty" instead.

Tuesday's lesson was experimenting 

with Fabric Paints.

The girls and I had fun!

We cut out shapes out of sliced potatoes

and also trying printing with leaves.

I hope to experiment further in this area

so watch this spot *grin*

Once the girls had been picked up 

I watched more of the Resource 4 DVD

and made a start on #4 exercises

My 3 Dimensional doodle

I tried drawing my hand.

Didn't work for me

so I took a few photos

then I changed them into B/W pics

Drawing from a B/W photo

seems to work better for me.

I "see" the tones better

for some reason...

Time: 4 hours (Tues 19 Feb)