Little Book

A while ago I showed you this, to save going searching for the pictures I thought I would post them again,



Calico stitched to cotton wadding



Covered in Molding Paste



Black ink and too much bleach



more ink but the bleach kept working



Close up



More black ink and walnut ink



A spritz of Moonshadow Mist Tawny Turquoise.

This piece sat around like this for a while and this week I decided to make a little book.
I painted some pelmet vilene and stitched it to the back of the square, I then folded it in half corner to corner.



In my cupboard was a book on Titian, my son had bought it for me from a second hand bookshop while I was doing C&G as inspiration, It had large colour plates on each page and a description on the reverse, I decided it needed a new lease of life. I cut the pages into squares and gave the back of the page a quick paint with acrylic, ready to be decorated at a later date.



To finish off the pages I carefully burnt the edges with a small T-Light, making sure I had a wet cloth to stop the smouldering pages from burning too much.



I attached the pages with a simple stab stitch trapping a black bead on the outside.

Torso

Well, I think its finished, since the last pictures of the gold layer, it has been wine coloured, copper coloured, then a wash of interference in a lilac shade,
with each coat of paint it got worse, so I went back to silver,I left it alone all week, and last night looked at the dyes ready mixed on my desk and found a red, now I wanted a deep wine colour and this was bright red, but I thought I would try it any way, and it sunk into the silver a really nice shade, this morning it has had a quick rub over with copper and silver gilding cream, and I am now trying to leave it be, the light is so bad here this morning I can't get a good shot to show the gilding colours properly, but I need to stop so I thought I would show you all,before I do anything else to it.
I will do a better picture soon, but I am now off to sit on my hands :)

A few more dabs and dashes

While working on something for Fibre & Stitch yesterday, every time I finished with a colour I rubbed the brush over the torso, I was using Liquitex Interference Medium Opal, and Daler-Rowney Interference Medium Gold, most companies do their own range of interference colours.
the colours don't really show up in the photograph, but I thought I would give you a little look see anyway :)
close up below