Well spring is here and colour has returned to my life inspired by any one of constable clouds paintings and he painted a lot of them. After trying out with crayons I was ready to progress to using fabric transfer paint for reverse printing onto polyester. Interesting idea, your painting layers become reversed , when you use a hot iron to transfer from the paper to the fabric.
Inspired by the clouds and the descriptions on the small dye pots I painted away . It was a bit disconcerting that the colours on the paper were not a very good match to the description on the tins. Vivid violet was more like a dull grey and lemon was more like a dirty mustard. But I was completley confident all would be well after the ironing.
Here is the finished painting laid out ready for the transfer. Not as vibrant as the descriptions would lead you to believe, but I was happy with the composition and my imagined finished effect
Now ironing is definitely not my favorite activity. Still all for a good cause. I ironed away taking great care not to disturb the two layers and smudge the whole effect . Eventually I dared to lift the corner to test if it had worked. Yes and no. I had lemon , red , blue , orange , but no sign at all of the vivid violet
I have no idea why. I am completely at a loss as to how to retrieve the situation. Even if I can discover why there is no possibly that I can line it all up again an complete another marathon ironing session. What a mystery. Here is my rather gappy finished piece. If you have any suggestion of a solution I be happy to hear your ideas.
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