Saturday, October 3, 2009

Liquitexalicious


Remember a couple weeks ago I said I had gotten a box of goodies from C&T Publishing? Well, here's the dealio. C&T has a new product - the Liquitex® Surface Design Center - a line of surface design materials meant to appeal to artists interested in fabric painting or art quilting. So I got some samples to play with. I'm already a Liquitex user (now I guess I'm a pusher too), because I like their Basics line of acrylic primary colors and use them in my color mixing workshops. But some of these products were new to me and me likey. Here's the scoop ...

For the piece above (and detail below): I block printed the Jizo, squares and double happiness character using Liquitex Soft Body acrylics, which have a very yummy texture and a nice hand. For the lotus flowers, I used the Basics acrylic paint. When the printed images were dry, I did an ink wash over the whole piece (with the ink!s from my original post about this). Very cool - really deep saturated colors with a super liquidy viscosity.



For the Cherry Blossom piece (below): I screen printed the background and stem using the Soft Body acrylics mixed with Fabric Medium and painted the blossoms with the acrylic inks.







[Luckily, I like the imperfect prints]






Sweet. Thank you Liquitex and C&T!


6 comments:

jane dávila said...

How cool! I particularly adore the blossom screen print. If you find it missing, it's probably at my house... ;)

Karen L R said...

Ahem, or my house!

Elin said...

Thanks ladies. Here's the thing though ... both pieces are gone gone gone, never to come this way again. They will live in a fabric store somewhere out there. All by their lonesomes. Too bad, 'cause I liked them.

buddhagirl said...

beautiful!
love the jizo character...
so sweet and serene.
thanks for the inspiration!
peace,
jennifer

Took said...

supa dupa!

Lisa Fulmer said...

Yummy - thanks so much for making models for our customers!!