Stylized leaf. Wallpaper pattern repeat III.

Art card. Oil pastel rubbing of vintage batik block over screen printed fabric. Copper foiling, quilted. About 5 x 5 inches.

Results of the monoprinting from the other day. Here is the blue now washed and rinsed out, and what remains. As I had hoped, some of the rusting shows through the dyeing.

Here is an overall view of the piece so far (color of the blue doesn't seem to be quite true to what it is...see scans of details for better representation):

Detail 1:

Detail 2:

Navy blue! Pine boughs! I've been wanting to add some blue to this orange and rusted work in progress for a while, and today was the day. I snapped off a couple of small branches, laid them onto a plastic sheet, and painted them thickly with thickened fiber reactive inks.  Then, I laid them onto my in progress fabric, and did monoprints across the cloth.

Here's a detail of some of the printing over the already screen printed and rusted cloth. I'm hoping that the blue will end up slightly transparent after washing so you can see the other printed layers underneath.

Mess I made on the plastic sheet and the monoprint leftover paper towel. Think I just may keep that for something!

Wallpaper pattern, repeat II.

Art card. Rubbings with oil pastel over vintage batik blocks on screen printed fabric, free motion quilted. About 5 x 5 inches.