Nomad - Week Six

In our Nomad project we started preparing backgrounds using heat transfer paints. I had used these before in ACES at the GSA which is a project for helping people get into art. You paint onto paper and then iron it onto fabric and it goes onto the fabric without a raised surface that you would get with pigment dye. I used three of my four colours that I had for my colour palette to create backgrounds using paint brushes and by spatting the paint onto the paper to make a starry background.

Many of the backgrounds I may not use but I can experiment with them. The papers will need time to dry and so I must put them through the heat press next week instead.

I also experimented with using watercolours to colour up backgrounds. This was harder than I thought it would be as the colours have to be pretty concentrated to stick to the fabric and I'm better with subtly using watercolours. In saying that watercolours are one of my favourite mediums and it was nice to be using them.

Next week we are still preparing grounds to work on I think we are a week ahead because this week was supposed to be print design but I finished mine last week.

Bobbi Jean Shields
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