Design and Materials: 1 hour
Execution: 4 hours
This week's technique is from this month's issue of Cloth Paper Scissors. Melanie Testa had hinted that this technique was something she helped test for a friend, and turns out that friend is her road-trip roommate from CREATE, Patricia Gaignat. I had the pleasure of meeting her at CREATE as well.
I am not going to give away how this was done because you should really get the magazine and give it a try, but I will say that I did this with sticky-backed fun foam and fabric paint. The fun foam was cut into my multi part print, and then mounted onto clear template plastic to help me align the pieces. I varied from the magazine only in using fabric paint on fabric (not paper) and the mounting on plastic.
This technique is so much easier than I had thought when Melly was showing her results way way back at IQA Chicago in April. I could not fathom how to line us the pieces, until I realized you could do so on acetate or plastic.
This little Octo is one of the first for me to have his legs cross over one another, something that made this project a little tougher.
I didn't do that good of a job registering my plates, but there's next time, and I have the plates forever. They wash up nicely. This would be great for ATCs.
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