Textile News 27

  Sketchbook Work

During lockdown Sandra has been doing a lot of work in her sketchbooks.She has been  building layers using mixed media working into the pages over and over again using a variety of techniques. 

Sketchbook

 

Monoprinted leaves on painted background and over painted  stencil on deli paper.

 

 

Water colour background, rubbed circles, crayon squares, traced pot.

Mosaic photo over painted background, painted square stencil on photo, dried leaf.

Printed background, hand drawn poppy seed heads, pen drawn lines and handwriting.

Photos of blue material cut into triangles pasted onto print and painted background.

Scraped paint, printed wide vertical lines, pen drawn narrow red lines.

Scraped paint background, block printed,  circle cut outs.

 

Painted background, felt pen writing,  circular photo.

Photo, ink background, block print.

Collage, mono printed leaves.

Photo, painted background, mono printed vase, brush shapes.

Painted and printed background, block printed, drawing, writing.

Ink background, eco leaf print, mono printed vase, stencilling.

 

Sandra said it was very relaxing just working into the sketchbook with no particular end product in mind.

Loving Earth Project - rough design for a panel 

Sandra has just made her first rough design for her loving earth panel pledging to limit new clothes to basic items and extending the use of older items by upcycling and embellishment.

The effect of this is to reduce the use of water,  pesticides and carbon dioxide. 

Sandra says she will use layers of used material for the background, and material collage and embroidery for the clothes.

It will change and develop during the making but the basic idea will stay the same.

Thank you Sandra. Clothes production, particularly fast fashion, is one of the biggest poluters of the planet.
 

NHS Thank You 

You will all have received your copy of  January's contact magazine by now and you might have had time to read it.

If you look on page 4 you will see a compilation of some of the squares made to thank the NHS.

Starting in the bottom left hand cormer and going up to the first square on the second row is a square made by Sandra - caring hands.

 

Cards

Thelma has been busy making some very attractive cards. She said she collected fabric and threads which looked good together and provided a range of textures, which she enhanced with stitch. They were then embellished with textural stitches and adornments e.g. buttons, beads etc.

Thank you Thelma , the colours and textures are beautiful.

 

  

Anne Brooke's 52 Tags Project 

Anita has been busy joining in with Anne Brooke's 52 tags project. The aim is to make a 3" x 2" tag each week and then combine them into a book or carousel of ideas.

The front of each tag has some stitching and then a kind of diary on the reverse,  quote or something interesting to you.

Anita's tags are below.

The tags could be used as a reference of ideas.

 If you are interested in finding out more go to

www.annebrooke.co.uk/2020project

and/or 

Anne Brooke textile artist 52 tags introduction 

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Thank you Anita ,your tags are pretty and by the time you have finished you will have built up a useful" reference book".