Play day

Stupid weather has been playing havoc with my sinus' and I'm not getting as much done as I'd like because I have to keep taking naps.  Hopefully, the weather will change for the better SOON and the headaches will quit.

The other day I went down to one of our neighbors and asked permission to take some pics of some of her flowers.  I need one ( or more) for our guild's class in Oct.  These are the ones I took...

Then, today, when coming back from the $ store, I noticed that Joyce across the street had some flowers that I'd like pics of.  She wasn't home ( I'll have to tell her later) but I took the pics anyway; I'm sure she won't care.  Here's what I got today.

yes, the top flower is just like the previous ones, but that's ok... it gives me another option.  I don't think I want to try the red ones, but I may print up a couple of copies incase someone else in the guild wants to try them.

Finally got around to playing with the paints.... Using white Kona cotton squares and Pebeo Setacolor paints, I tried these first... spraying generously with water before applying the paint with a sponge brush.

Upper left corner... just paint ( cobalt blue)... upper right corner... just paint but scrunched to see if I get texture ( hills and valleys)... lower right corner was sprinkled with table salt and then sea salt after the paint was applied - just to see what it does.  I tried these with blue right out of the bottle and then tried with watering down the paint in a bowl before applying to the wet fabric.  The blue is darker than I want - going to have to figure out how to lighten it ( no white Pebeo).

The brown block is also Kona cotton with just a tiny TINY amount of velvet brown paint.   I sprinkled a teeny tiny amount of table salt on this one, too.

Then I grabbed a piece of green Grunge fabric and tried shading with the brown ...

I don't think it looks like much in the pic, but it's looking exactly like I want.   

Now, letting everything sit to dry - Why did I ever get rid of ALL of my hairdryers!?!?!  Oh well, that's ok - it's giving me time to do this blog and to watch Sister Wives :).

Will post tomorrow about how the samples look after dried.   Oh... Thanks to TheQuiltShow.com and Cindy Walter... cindywalter.com  for showing me painting on fabrics :).

TTYL