100 Days of Mark Making on Fabric: Week 9

Week 9 of my #100daysofmarkmakingonfabric project yielded 3 yards of mark-making magic using a new color: Green! Try not to be green with envy. These marks were surprisingly fun and easy to create using some fun new-to-me products and techniques which I will share below... 

57/100: Markers + Artist's Choice

Green grass inspired my first foray into using a variety of green markers: Tombow, Identipen, Tee Juice, and Ecoline Brush Pens (which may be my new favorite as they flow beautifully and come in lots of juicy colors!!). Tufts of grass started to zig and zag into all new wonderful designs!! 

58/100: Dye-Na-Flow + Wavy Lines

Each piece of Prepared for Dye Pimatex cotton fabric, measuring 22" x 10", was folded accordion-style prior to applying several colors of Pro Silk & Fabric paint and Dye-Na-Flow into the folds. 

The sun certainly worked its magic to create these spectacular designs!

59/100: Pens + Quadrilaterals

More emerald inspired doodling with Sakura Gelli Roll pens in Moonlight and sparkling Stardust greens.

60/100: Markers + Artist's Choice

Today's play involved using a variety of markers to draw onto freezer paper first. Recently I watched a video demo by @thediyday where she placed a piece of paper on top which soaked up all the beads of watercolor. 

So I wondered if I could try this with PFD fabric. The first attempt was very light. So I applied more and more marker onto the freezer paper before placing the fabric on top. The markers were drying a bit faster than I expected, so on the 4th try, I spritzed it all with water before placing the fabric on top. The color transferred onto the fabric was much more saturated--so much so that some of the marker transferred onto my fingers as I was smoothing the fabric down to soak up all the watercolor. This is definitely a technique that I would like to revisit again!

61/100: Dye-Na-Flow + Circles

Today kicked off San Jose's #wecreate408, a month-long series of creative prompts sponsored by the San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs. In honor of today's Try It Out prompt, I tried out a new way of creating circles and dots with fabric paint: Spraying paint droplets onto PFD fabric with a mister bottle!

At first I sprayed various paint colors (using a mix of ProSilk & Fabric and Dye-Na-Flow) for an all over design. 

Rocks were used at the corners to anchor the fabric in place. Of course they acted as a resist and left the corners unpainted. The wind kept shifting and so did I to avoid painting myself green (although my hands and fingers are still a wee bit green!)

As I was cleaning off my hands and all the bottles, I kept thinking about those corners and wondered "What If?" I used something other than rocks as a resist? Despite having finished cleaning up, I couldn't "resist" trying out another new idea. I reloaded all the bottles and headed back outside with several vinyl placemats. The rocks mat didn't have enough negative space, so it felt a bit flat...  

But the next two mats yielded wonderful fabrics that are simply irresistable and definitely well worth the extra cleaning efforts!!

I will definitely be revisiting this technique again using some of the other fun vinyl mats in my growing collection!

62/100: Pens + Straight Lines/Grids

Creating a variety of gridded hashtag patterns using some of my favorite pens: Micron, Gelli Roll, and Uniball Signo!!

63/100: Textile Paint + Straight Lines

Combining texture combs and Color Shift metallic acrylic paints to create a variety of tantalizing textures. It is difficult to capture the metallic accents of the Emerald Flash Color Shift paint with my camera, but WOW do they sparkle against the black Pimatex fabric background! 

At first I started by dipping the texture combs into paint and scraping them across the fabric with each comb yielding a different texture.

I played with creating long strokes vs. short ones. Then I played with dipping the comb into the paint and stamping it onto the fabric to create a dotted line. 

Scrapes or Dots? Which of these patterns sparks your interest?!?

These 63 days have yieled more than 25 yards of mark-making fun!! I love seeing the rainbow form as each new color is introduced...

And you may have recognized a few of these fabrics and techniques worked their way into "On Your Mark...Get Set...Glow," my 6" x 8" donation for the SAQA's Spotlight Auction. There's still time to bid on your favorite Art Quilts, although I confess that it's hard to choose from 270 exquisite donations!! Be sure to check them out and place your bids to win before each table closes starting on Sunday, April 25th at 2 PM, 4 PM, 6 PM (this table includes my piece), and 8 PM Eastern Time. What a great way to help SAQA promote the Art Quilt, while adding one or more Art Quilts to your own collection!