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The second part of our workshop covered experimenting with Markal Paintstiks (Shiva). My very limited experiments involved using a freezer paper mask to shield the paper and stroke the paintstik across the fabric.
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I am quite excited by the results above. I took all the shavings from the paintstiks and sprinkled them onto the fabric and then ironed them (under baking parchment) until they melted. Obviously this is only a very small amount of oilbar but it already, to my eye, has a look of the sea and rockpools. I am definitely going to play with this much more to see what effects I can achieve. I have never used my oilbars (paintstiks) for anything other than painting before but I can see that I will be exploring the possibilities with fabric much more. The metallics look beautiful once they have been heat set with the iron.
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I did try using the paintstiks with various stamps, stretching the fabric over the stamp, but it was pretty useless as the fabric kept moving. More experiments required.
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The final part of our workshop is still cooking! Rust dyeing! I'm planning to rinse it through on Friday as it seems to be working quite well so far.
