Sun Printing with silk paints June Meeting 2016

As we made our way to the hall on Tuesday we were all watching the weather hoping for a little bit of sun and no rain. We had been told sun printing would still work in cloud but much more slowly than in the sun.
Several of us wore our macks because it never rains when you have your mack!
The workshop was led by one of our members Sue Tyldesley who arrived with a basket full of greenery to use for the sun printing.
Sue showed us some samples in pretty colours with the unmisstakeable shapes of leaves, flowers and grasses.
Sue demonstated the technique by brushing water onto cotton fabric and then applying silk paints and letting the colours mingle. She then applied leaves and flowers etc to the surface pressing them down so they were flush with the surface. She then placed the board supporting the cotton fabric outside for the sun to do its work! 
Then it was our turn and we were all raring to go and had fingers crossed the sun would come out.

Sue then said we could add sea salt to parts of the background to make a further pattern on the material.

There were lots of oohs! and aahs! as we removed the greenery to reveal the shapes. We then started to get adventurous and use all sorts of interesting objects and larger natural items.

Meanwhile the sun started to shine and the printing started to work much faster.
You can see a before and after picture below:

Our members enjoyed the day greatly and at the end we had a look at all we had done and Sue made suggestions as to what we might do with them.

All thanks to Sue for a very good day.