Have you ever looked around your kitchen at all the implements
and wondered what it would be like to print with them?
Take potato mashers for instance - chances are that you have
the common wavy looking one in your drawer. But have you
ever thought about all the different designs of potato mashers?
Over the years I have collected about thirty of them without ever
duplicating the pattern of the potato masher.....
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| On this fabric I screen-printed, painted, stencilled and scraped the pigment. I use my own Colour Vie pigment (www.colourvie.com). The potato masher is an important part of the design. |
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| A few of my favourite potato mashers. |
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| I printed this tea towel on a slightly padded surface, using my Coiour Vie pigments (www.colourvie.com) |
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| If you don't want to print your own tea towels, you can purchase one of my fun and funky already printed tea towels at my shop on etsy: https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/Colourvie |
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| I painted and over-printed this fabric with two different potato mashers (and also added a few little black and white marks). |
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| First I painted the fabric and then went wild with the potato masher, removing and manipulating the pigment while it was still wet. |
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| This is a favourite potato masher in all my classes. I found this adorable masher in a store in Portugal while visiting friends there, and have never seen another one like it. |
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| The Portuguese potato masher in action. I also scraped away some of the wet pigment using a credit card and a plastic lid. |
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| Student work. |
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| Student work using several different mashers and found objects. |
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| Student work using a potato masher and found objects. |
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| Student work using different mashers and found objects. |
