April 21, 2010

On the second day of Kathyanne White’s workshop, everyone got to try their hand at printing digital images onto uncommon surfaces.

We printed on watercolor paper, tyvek, bark paper, and aluminum sheets cut from soda cans!

From the left to the right, the first one is on aluminum, then next on tyvek, and the last on watercolor paper.

Today we are going to learn about distressing these surfaces with heat to create more interesting and complex textures.

We also prepared for printing on cotton, a gel medium “skin”, muslin, and lutradur – which we’ll do today.

Kathyanne then discussed with the group the various options for our next journal project. We could choose to make a base of just watercolor paper, just fabric, or a combination of the two. We could design a journal to be just an art journal or make it so that it could be written in as a regular journal.

We were then set lose to create like crazy.

Most people choose to paint more watercolor papers to use as a base for the pages.

A field trip to the local dollar store for beads and other embellishments was fitted in at lunchtime.

The afternoon was spent preparing our collections to incorporate onto the pages.

These are little bundles of painted fabric, plastic netting, wool wrapped twigs, and buttons and beads.

Marlene is working on combining decorator fabrics to become a page or cover for her book.

This is another fabric combination being created by Su

Su also put together these fun little bundles of fabric, beads, buttons, burlap, and twigs, all tied together with wire.

Today Kathyanne will be explaining how to use PhotoShop Elements to manipulate images. Then the images will be printed on the materials that we prepared yesterday (fabric, lutradur, etc.). After that we’ll start distressing the printed images.