ACAD fibre dept. has a wonderful collection of rusty bits and they are about 10 times the size of rusty bits that I have collected and keep at home. I think I want to go even bigger with this. As follow up today I have left some bigger sheets to rust dye but even ACAD's rusting metal is not big enough for these pieces... so I will have to look elsewhere, Tara did say there are some bits outside the building...
Anyway the sun bleaching of my papers (I did a trial over the weekend) were not very encouraging. I mean they bleached too much. Perhaps I need to go for an over-dye of rust on my KMnO4 papers like the one at the bottom (above). I really like this piece.
It was a short day for me at ACAD as I had an appointment elsewhere at 12:30, but on the way to my appointment I checked out Beadles for the 'nodes' for my latest wormy... they had about 6 beads in the colour I need and I need about 30! I bought samples of two other colours and I hope I feel satisfied with these when I have applied them.... Might have to visit Suzie-Q in Inglewood to see if they have my first choice of beads.. or something more similar. Or maybe Michael's on the way home tomorrow, though I don't hold out much hope for Mike's.
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AAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOH!!!!! RSUT!!! YUM YUM YUM
Suzie-q's is EXPENSIVE--and snotty---and have some great beads but are EXPENSIVE--and snotty :}
What fantastic work!! and lucky you to have such a great space to work in - I am sooo Jealous!! I love the rusted fabrics - how big are you trying to go and why? Could you not scrunch or fold up your fabric before rusting? Turning it over if necessary
Yes I am very lucky... I know it and am trying to be in at ACAD every minute that I can.
I am hoping use the paper and interfacing that I dyed to work it to imitate tree bark. I already have some pieces but they are so small once I have shiboried them... I use Shibori to create the shades and textures... I don't un'fold' them too much because I like the depth....so you are bang on with your suggestion of folding and scrunching.
I will post an image shortly - if I have success with these new pieces.
Progress is slow when I try new techniques... but thanks for popping by to see what is going on for me.
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