Success at home....

After the disappointment of poor transfer results in the hall during our recent "play-day", we have since each spent a considerable number of hours at home transferring our paper prints to fabrics with great results.
We then had a show and tell in our last meeting, and a couple of us have already used the resulting fabrics in projects.  There are far too many to show here, so the following photos are a selection from each participating member.

Yvonne began by showing her results, along with the project she had made using one of the transfers.  Yvonne further embellished the freezer paper stencilled flowers with paint and stitch before using the flower motif again, as a quilting design on the background.

More of Yvonne's samples above and below using resists to give attractive backgrounds

Next was Jenny's turn to talk about her processes and samples

Jenny cut out hearts from painted papers and used these as a resist to transfer the colours of the hearts as well as more papers for the background transfer, giving a lovely delicate panel of fabric.

Jenny who has used this technique before, went on to demonstrate other ways resists can be used used, with leaves and feathers.

Jill then discussed how she used leaves as resists

and added further paint to the transferred print

Jill also used transfer dyes in a mono-print technique

Helen explored transfer crayons, pens and markers and showed her results expressing that this was the first time she had encountered this technique so her test drawings were quite simple in design, but she was pleased with the transferred results.

Transfer pens

Transfer markers

Helen also tested out transfer paints in a mono-print technique.

Next was Gill, this also being her first introduction to this medium

This sample from Gill had salt sprinkled onto wet dye coloured paper, with the resulting transfer print onto cotton/poly fabric

Although Carol is an artist using regular colouring techniques, this was also her first introduction to using  transfer paints, dyes and crayons.

Carol's sample using the transfer dyes and a foam stamp above, and below making marks using transfer paints

Carol spent some time exploring the use of  transfer crayons on paper over a rubbing mat.  She found that quite vigorous rubbing with a generous application of the crayon gave best results.

I had experimented with transfer paints some time ago and being disappointed with the colours in my resulting transfers, was looking forward to trying out different techniques and also to using the transfer dyes.

This sample shows transfer paints on plotter film, the markings made by laying and scrumpling cling film on the surface while wet, with the resulting print alongside.

This sample used up the dregs of transfer paint from my palette, sponged onto paper, then transfer printed on to poly/cotton fabric with eucalyptus leaves as a resist.  The leaves are blue because they had picked up paint from a previous transfer paper, and I laid the leaves down with that painted side to the fabric.

The centre panels in this pair of cushions are results from using more eucalyptus leaves as resits with black transfer dye painted on paper and coarse sea-salt sprinkled on while the paper was wet.  I was able to get two transfer prints from one paper.  The leaves were then painted with a wash of grey acrylic paint and heat set.

We all enjoyed our experiments very much and intend exploring this avenue further in another Diversity group session in April, though I know some of us will also be spending time before then making more papers and prints.  We hope you will come back soon  to see those results.

                                                                                                      Rachel