More on Using Art

Here is another piece of dyed fabric which I have combined within Photoshop Elements.  I made zigzigs on the cloth by drawing with a squeeze bottles filled with thickened dye. First with a golden yellow and then turquoise.  I left it for a little while and then scrapped over the pattern with a credit card.  This of course combined the colours and made them green.

Here it is combined with a picture I took of some wrought iron gates:

Using Art in Photoshop Elements

My whole aim with Photoshop Elements is to merge art and the computer.

I am doing a course in fabric surface design and dyeing this year with Committed to Cloth called 'Wet and Wild'.  The 1st two weeks we concentrated on straight forward dyeing and colour mixing.  Last week we started on mark making with thickened dyes and the aim was to experiment with all sorts of mark making tools like credit cards, brushes, combs etc.

So at last I have something to experiment with on PSE.  Here is one of my bits of fabric marked using a credit card:

Here is the fabric scanned into Photoshop Elements, changed and made into a pattern.  I really want to print this onto fabric.  Just love it. And what potential for machine or hand embroidery!

And this is just one of my samples!

Pulled Out an Ongoing Project..

I couldn't do anymore hand embroidery on my course project until the next assignment so looked around for a project which has been crying out for some hand embroidery.

I started my own style Teesha Moore fabric pillows a while back and add to them when I have a spare hour or so.  I am hoping to eventually make a bag out of them (well, eventually).  I wanted them to have a sort of medieval theme and created the ones below on calico using stencils and thickened procion dyes and some have rubbings with Markal Paintstiks.  I have used machine embroidery on a couple and now I have some with hand embroidery.  Here are a sample: