Q IS FOR Q-TIP!
After a long hiatus, I am resuming the alphabet printing.
A fire damaged some of my artwork and fabrics, but things are
slowly getting back to something resembling "normal" again.
Occasionally I find it difficult to choose what technique or implement
to use for a certain letter in my alphabet printing quest. No problem
this time. The letter Q was a no brainer. Q-tips!
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| I painted the fabric with Colour Vie pigments, www.colourvie.com, and then printed with a block made with Q-tips. |
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| To create the stamps, I glued Q-tips onto pieces of scrap wood. To protect the Q-tips from getting soggy when printing, I coated the blocks with gel medium. |
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| I made a stamp pad from foam rubber, inked up the stamp and printed away. |
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| Checker board pattern. |
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| Variation on a theme. |
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| Printed with two different blocks. |
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| To create this print, I placed Q-tips under the fabric and dry brushed over the top. |
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| Dry brushed and over painted (with Colour Vie pigments, of course). |
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| In this piece I placed Q-tips under the fabric, painted the entirefabric with Colour Vie pigments, then scraped off the excess pigment with a narrow squeegee to create a shadowy Q-tip look. |
