Samples from Retreat

As Dianne suggested, I am posting photos of some of my experiments done at her cottage last week.
These first pieces were made with Colour Vie paint, which uses very concentrated pigments added to a neutral base. It has a nice yogurt-like consistency, so I could fill a syringe with it and write script with the paint. It also stamps quite well. It loses some vibrancy when washed, so I guess the secret is to add a little more pigment to the base.
This piece had a resist applied to it, a thin layer of instant mashed potatoes, reconstituted. I scratched some numerals into the wet resist, let it dry, applied fabric paint, then dried it in the sun for several days before washing it all out in the machine.
These next pieces were done using hand-dyed cotton and deColourant, a new product which uses the heat of an iron to activate the discharging process.
This piece was made with thickened dye on white cotton, pre-treated with soda ash.
Finally, here are four different pieces which began as hand-dyed cotton, soaked in a vinegar solution. Rusty things were laid on the cloth, and all was sealed up in plastic and left there in the heat of the day, and overnight. These would lend themselves nicely to a Fragments theme, because they have that "de-constructed" look to them.

As always, the challenge is to actually use these new fabrics to make something interesting!