A Lovely Dream

Fabric Painting - You Suck Monday

kinda sleepy. Kinda over the henna red hair too.
Inspired by Donna Downey and Jacquard Paints I spent the day on Live Cam  playing with their new paints. This was just an experiment, I had never worked intentionally with fabric paints on fabric before. (Stewart gill is a fabric paint but I layer it over acrylic and papers).  Just fooling around I made a girls face.

The Neopaque's are wonderful.  They cover thick with one coating. Also the paints come with a medium so you can blend them that is very nice. I didn't do a lot of detail, I was just playing around, layering, getting a feel for the paint.

Using templates from The Crafters Workshop I stenciled on color over color.

It's interesting how art comes together when you are not trying. This was just practice, remember, fooling around. I didn't care if her eyes were a bit googly I wanted to see how the paint covered and layered.  I wanted to put a word on her, of course, and chose a stamp I had that said FATE.  As soon as I put it down I looked at the numbers and thought, yeah, this makes sense. Fate. Numbers.  Like a fated event. And then someone said, "Don't tempt fate!" and I didn't know what that meant exactly so we looked it up and it said something like - pushing your luck when the odds are against you. and I thought YEA! Tempt Fate!

So this is where I ended it.  The coolest is that it is on fabric.  30 seconds of heat setting with an iron and its permanent. you can wear it. and you could really wear it.  Unlike using regular acrylic paints Jacquard remain Flexible.  It's not going to look stiff and cheesy on a shirt, which is what a lot of art clothing looks like to me. (Remember puffy paints?) Tempt fate. Always.  Pay no attention to the odds, odds mean absolutely nothing.  What were the odds anyone would give a crap about a little Italian girl making puppet shows about her life in her crappy apartment kitchen in south Jersey?  Same as the odds of my first horse at the Meadowlands Racetrack TeddyBear Hanover.  10-1.  A long shot. And guess what. Teddy came in first.
(and I never got another one right since.)

Pay no attention to the odds.
Play with things you know nothing about.
Experiment.  The universe loves a beginner.

*Join us for LIVE CAM every monday for
YOU SUCK MONDAY.

(next monday we are going to suck at transfers. Join us!)

xoxo
Suzi

Inspired

INSPIRED WITH DONNA DOWNEY

The Winner of the Artist Tote Bag and Suzi Stamp
#52 Cathy Wegner

The Art Doll is by
Brenda Figueroa
vieunerose.blogspot.com

 

This is Heidi from Stampavie. She is from France. She is my soulmate. It's like me with blonde hair and without a jersey accent. Planning a trip to France!


I got to dine with Maryanne Vanwingerden, a student who's work I am happily putting in my book. She's coming out to visit me this summer.

La Petite Jenny Doh! It amazes me how you can give many artists the same template and each of them make it into something different and usually, something that represents themselves.  We can't help but put our thumbprints onto what we fondle.


I promised Georgette I would make an Angel of a deeper color for her in my book, and dedicate it to her.  My problem has been that I blend my faces with a white pencil - hence why the light girls have been easiest to do.  But there is a call for ALL GIRLS to make pretty faces so Im on the job.  Book deadline is July 1st and I will make Georgette proud.

Les Petit Paolo! He was the photographer for the event and has the coolest mustache ever. Hence forth all boys accompany Suzi Dolls will have vintage villian mustaches. He is coming to visit me too.

And we are on the job fixing Finney's tail. You can't fool around with a bacterial infection so I have vet tech appointments to help keep his wounded areas spotless, (he wont let me touch his tail for baths. When I know it hurts him it makes me press lighter and that's not good.) It was almost cleared up but then came back. That will not happen again. We and the vet team together will fix my poor finney.


My next giveaway, (and it is way fun giving away stuff, if I run out of art supplies I'll start digging through gigi's toys and various things in my junk drawer), is fabric paint and a pen from Jacquard. Next week I'll make a video and the random lottery will begin. But now, back to the book.

xoxo
Suzi

Golly, if I had to do digital computer work for a living well, I wouldn't. It gives me a headache and headaches mean a bad mood. grrrrr.

I need to pick a winner for the tote bag and suzi stamp but after 8 hours of photoshop I gotta lie down.  I will pick a winner on monday so you have another evening to put your name in to win (last post).

talk soon

Gigi's favorite song

 

Gypsy Love

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