Colored pencils and quilting
#292
I made these Artist Trading Cards (ATC) using Inktense pencils for a swap in my Art + Quilt study group. We have a year's worth of studying Lyric Kinard's Art + Quilt book.
Artist Trading Cards are the size of a playing card 2.5" x 3.5". I used a Micron Pigma black pen last after coloring, applying gel, ironing, washing, drying, and ironing again. I am going to be trying the Pentel Gel Roller Pen for Fabric when I receive my order in the mail this week.
Most of these cards were done in the Zentangle style.
http://www.zentangle.com
http://www.tanglepatterns.com
Artist Trading Cards are the size of a playing card 2.5" x 3.5". I used a Micron Pigma black pen last after coloring, applying gel, ironing, washing, drying, and ironing again. I am going to be trying the Pentel Gel Roller Pen for Fabric when I receive my order in the mail this week.
Most of these cards were done in the Zentangle style.
http://www.zentangle.com
http://www.tanglepatterns.com
Artist Trading Cards
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Artist Trading Cards
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#293
This quilt was colored by a neighbor girl going into sixth grade. The leaves in the upper left corner were colored after quilting and activated with water.
Red-Eyed Tree Frog
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#294
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Jane-
Your artist cards look like they could have been block printed! They are truly wonderful. I'm wondering if I could print over the colored pencil.
Also, the children's work (as I think I've said before) is so creative. You've done such a nice thing by offering this experience for them. What a confidence builder for a preteen or teen or whatever age!
Thanks again for sharing these with us.
Your artist cards look like they could have been block printed! They are truly wonderful. I'm wondering if I could print over the colored pencil.
Also, the children's work (as I think I've said before) is so creative. You've done such a nice thing by offering this experience for them. What a confidence builder for a preteen or teen or whatever age!
Thanks again for sharing these with us.
#295
Originally Posted by janeknapp
This quilt was colored by a neighbor girl going into sixth grade. The leaves in the upper left corner were colored after quilting and activated with water.
I wanted to ask if the following is how this was done.
1. colored the frog with the Inktense pencils and let dry
2. applied aloe vera gel and let dry
3. quilted
4. colored the leaves
5. brushed water on them and let dry
Then, did you cover that layer with aloe vera?
Your quilting really sets everthing off. I love it.
#296
We searched for images of frogs on the web. This one was saved to the desktop and then cropped/resized for 8.5 x 10.75. It was printed in color (use grayscale to save ink) and traced lightly onto fabric with a regular pencil using a light box (can use a window). A white fabric eraser (Hancock's or Jo-Ann's) is used for mistakes. The frog is colored with the dry Inktense pencils which are permanent. Clear aloe vera gel which activates the color but prevents bleeding is applied with a fabric brush. It dries quickly. I heat set the ink using pressing cloths on front and back. I wash the fabric until the slippery gel is gone under a small amount of water in a cake pan. It dries and is pressed again. I quilt it. Color was needed in the quilted leaves, so the pencils were used to add more color. Then water was added to the leaves by using a slightly moist brush (tap once on scrap fabric to remove some water). A moist brush to the tip of a pencil can take some color to add to a few drops of water to get the desired shade. This can then be brushed onto the leaves.
#297
Originally Posted by lots2do
Jane-
Your artist cards look like they could have been block printed! They are truly wonderful. I'm wondering if I could print over the colored pencil.
Also, the children's work (as I think I've said before) is so creative. You've done such a nice thing by offering this experience for them. What a confidence builder for a preteen or teen or whatever age!
Thanks again for sharing these with us.
Your artist cards look like they could have been block printed! They are truly wonderful. I'm wondering if I could print over the colored pencil.
Also, the children's work (as I think I've said before) is so creative. You've done such a nice thing by offering this experience for them. What a confidence builder for a preteen or teen or whatever age!
Thanks again for sharing these with us.
I've enjoyed working with the kids. I guess I miss my classroom days. The girl who made the frog said, "I didn't know it would turn out this good." She and her mom "had" to rush to Michael's last night to buy a plastic stand-up picture frame, so her frog could have a sleeve to fit over the frame.
#298
Jane, there is one thing I don't understand with the Inktense pencils. All of the sites I have researched say you have to use a textile gel of some sort in order to make the color permenant. In your explaination of the tree frog I didn't see any mention about it.
So is the Inktense pencils permenant with only a heat set?
Thanks for the help.
So is the Inktense pencils permenant with only a heat set?
Thanks for the help.
#300
Originally Posted by juneayerza
Jane, there is one thing I don't understand with the Inktense pencils. All of the sites I have researched say you have to use a textile gel of some sort in order to make the color permenant. In your explaination of the tree frog I didn't see any mention about it.
So is the Inktense pencils permenant with only a heat set?
Thanks for the help.
So is the Inktense pencils permenant with only a heat set?
Thanks for the help.
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