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Yesterday I had the car. I went to the thrift store for clothes. Of course I was sidetracked. I'm horrible that way, and the thrift store is full of such temptation!
I bought 3 turtlenecks and 2 pairs of pants, plus a vase and a kleenex box for $30cdn. That was pricey in my books. Pants have gone up in price at the thrift store. I'm not impressed. They were $7.99/pair.
The vase was to complete a vignette of vases on my mantel. I didn't want to spend a lot of money on this, so have been picking them up at garage sales and thrift stores. The long tall white one is the one I found for 99 cents yesterday.
Here is the Kleenex box...
Cool! you say? But why? Good question. I am not going to use it for Kleenex. So help me, all I could think of was "What a neat pattern to put fabric over and rub with Shiva sticks!" So that's what it is going to be used for. A template for Shiva stick paintings. It was $1.99. A set of four templates is $6.50 at the cheap store in town. I have two distinct patterns on this box - the lid and the side - and they go together.
I bought 3 turtlenecks and 2 pairs of pants, plus a vase and a kleenex box for $30cdn. That was pricey in my books. Pants have gone up in price at the thrift store. I'm not impressed. They were $7.99/pair.
The vase was to complete a vignette of vases on my mantel. I didn't want to spend a lot of money on this, so have been picking them up at garage sales and thrift stores. The long tall white one is the one I found for 99 cents yesterday.
Here is the Kleenex box...
Cool! you say? But why? Good question. I am not going to use it for Kleenex. So help me, all I could think of was "What a neat pattern to put fabric over and rub with Shiva sticks!" So that's what it is going to be used for. A template for Shiva stick paintings. It was $1.99. A set of four templates is $6.50 at the cheap store in town. I have two distinct patterns on this box - the lid and the side - and they go together.
This past weekend I had a wonderful time learning something new and playing. I attended a Shiva oil stick workshop. We were shown how to use Shiva sticks on various fabrics. Here are some of my samples.
This has three techniques. First I put masking tape down in a pattern and brushed green Shiva stick on. Then I stenciled on the purple Shiva stick. Then I used a metallic powder to superimpose a spiral pattern overtop. It is very funky looking. The fabric all came pre-dyed by the instructor. This is a piece of cotton.
This was a blue/purple salt dye job. I resurrected it with snowflake stencils. I incorporated blue, silver and white snowflakes. It didn't come alive until the white was added. This is a very stiff thick piece of Egyptian muslin.
This is actually a piece that didn't work. I was using a template underneath the fabric and rubbing over the top with Shiva sticks. The pattern didn't show through very well, so I did it again. Once in orange and once in brown. It still didn't work. I was going to toss it, but the instructor had given each of us a sheet of freezer paper to play with. So I ended up creating this oak leaf stencil pattern and ironing the freezer paper to the surface of the fabric. Then I stenciled this. The plain one to the left was my practice piece. I was still unhappy with the piece and was going to toss it, but I showed it to some people in a nearby craft store and they had all kinds of ideas for what I could do with it. So I'm keeping it. This is poly-cotton...I think.
More playing with different templates underneath the fabric. I am thinking that a group of these could make a neat quilt. Instant quilt blocks! This is cotton.
I really liked the template concept. Here I was playing with a different type of Shiva stick. It's called ColorSticks and is sold as a child's marker. Trust me ladies when I say, you don't want your kids playing with this stuff. It's oil paint in a tube. This is cotton.
As a break from working with Shiva sticks, the instructor had us do some encaustic work. This is wax crayon melted on tin foil (wrong side up) heated in an electric fry pan on low. I don't really like this technique because the wax makes the fabric so stiff. I'm hoping when I iron it out between parchment paper later this week, it will take the stiffness away. This is cotton.
This is what happens when you find all the good stencils gone. You make your own. And when you get curious. You use a different fabric - in this case organza. This was a fascinating piece. The instructor laid it over another leaf print on cotton and it looked just lovely. Really added depth.
And this is what happens when you can't sleep at 2 in the morning, and you have drawers of scrapbooking supplies and shiva sticks! I played with some of the rubber stamps I have. I call it "12 Roses for Christ", but view it as a very preliminary piece. I wanted mostly to see how Shiva handled on a fine silk. It's a bit trickier, but doable.
Then I researched Shiva sticks on-line and have come up with a whole bunch of new ideas. One lady makes linocuts and then uses them as a template to rub over. Sounds like a plan to me! I am really excited about the potential in these little babies. I must admit, I've been partial to oil paints all my life. The nice thing about these is they clean up with water and lemon detergent (aka lemon scented Sunlight detergent).
This has three techniques. First I put masking tape down in a pattern and brushed green Shiva stick on. Then I stenciled on the purple Shiva stick. Then I used a metallic powder to superimpose a spiral pattern overtop. It is very funky looking. The fabric all came pre-dyed by the instructor. This is a piece of cotton.
This was a blue/purple salt dye job. I resurrected it with snowflake stencils. I incorporated blue, silver and white snowflakes. It didn't come alive until the white was added. This is a very stiff thick piece of Egyptian muslin.
This is actually a piece that didn't work. I was using a template underneath the fabric and rubbing over the top with Shiva sticks. The pattern didn't show through very well, so I did it again. Once in orange and once in brown. It still didn't work. I was going to toss it, but the instructor had given each of us a sheet of freezer paper to play with. So I ended up creating this oak leaf stencil pattern and ironing the freezer paper to the surface of the fabric. Then I stenciled this. The plain one to the left was my practice piece. I was still unhappy with the piece and was going to toss it, but I showed it to some people in a nearby craft store and they had all kinds of ideas for what I could do with it. So I'm keeping it. This is poly-cotton...I think.
More playing with different templates underneath the fabric. I am thinking that a group of these could make a neat quilt. Instant quilt blocks! This is cotton.
I really liked the template concept. Here I was playing with a different type of Shiva stick. It's called ColorSticks and is sold as a child's marker. Trust me ladies when I say, you don't want your kids playing with this stuff. It's oil paint in a tube. This is cotton.
As a break from working with Shiva sticks, the instructor had us do some encaustic work. This is wax crayon melted on tin foil (wrong side up) heated in an electric fry pan on low. I don't really like this technique because the wax makes the fabric so stiff. I'm hoping when I iron it out between parchment paper later this week, it will take the stiffness away. This is cotton.
This is what happens when you find all the good stencils gone. You make your own. And when you get curious. You use a different fabric - in this case organza. This was a fascinating piece. The instructor laid it over another leaf print on cotton and it looked just lovely. Really added depth.
And this is what happens when you can't sleep at 2 in the morning, and you have drawers of scrapbooking supplies and shiva sticks! I played with some of the rubber stamps I have. I call it "12 Roses for Christ", but view it as a very preliminary piece. I wanted mostly to see how Shiva handled on a fine silk. It's a bit trickier, but doable.
Then I researched Shiva sticks on-line and have come up with a whole bunch of new ideas. One lady makes linocuts and then uses them as a template to rub over. Sounds like a plan to me! I am really excited about the potential in these little babies. I must admit, I've been partial to oil paints all my life. The nice thing about these is they clean up with water and lemon detergent (aka lemon scented Sunlight detergent).
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