This one looks like spirit guides  

Over dyed bright pink 

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Fridays masterpieces 

Before with quick dye in a tube  

second dye bath .. months later 

After second dye bath months later  

Blue gel washable glue before 

Dyeing on a friday

As you can see I have been a bit busy dyeing today. I have pieces in the machine washing as we speak and as you can see ... my hands are a bit blue .. doesnt look very nice. Perhaps I will try some bleach on them. I dyed some threads and fabrics today also redyed a couple of pieces the one with some circles .. tye dyed look was one I did back a while ago with some dyes you did in the microwave .. instant type ones. The colour was not really strong enough for my liking so I had left the elastics on pics to come later when the laundry is done and they are dry.

I am not sure if you remember a piece that I had started dyeing ... mossy green then spilt some paint on it BROWN sparkly then I did some blue gel glue resist. Well I redyed that piece and it looks great .. well in the wash now as well so I will post pics of befores and afters.

One other thing I tried was dyeing some newprint paper .. hmmm didnt turn out so good .. kept ripping .. but lets see what happens when it is dry.

So another post perhaps tomorrow with the final results .. keep posted

Blue thumb should be green 

Laundry today  

dyed paper  

Sues Wisteria  

hand dyed, markal and copper foiling 

Bleeding heart and forget me not 

flowers and plants on my walk 

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New technique weekend

Well its been a busy weekend doing just art ... lucky me. I have been playing around with painting books, shrink plastic... ummm the results were not that great but looking forward to trying new things with this stuff. Painted bondaweb which I think turned out really good. The thing is ... what is up with GREEN, I have been using green now in my palette for some time and really I am not even a green lover... but do like the blending of greens as you can tell. I have been using it since the begginning of the year and I see that green means contentment !
Finally the sun is out for the weekend.... almost 6.00 o'clock and finally it decides to come out.... YA good timing.. no wonder I stayed in doing art.
Right so a busy week coming up lawn bowling monday and wednesday and try to get in some sewing in between that. Later tonight I am going to try out bleaching with stamps ... results later.
Hope you enjoy the stuff I have done so far.

Shrink plastic  

Painting some paper to do some art on  

Another book cover in progress 

Backside of the book cover 

Painted bookcover in progress 

Painted bondaweb (Still needs stitching)