TASTER: Block Printing with Mary Gamester
FREE Tasters (Textile Art) • Educational, G, 01-Jan-2016
Mary shows how to use transfer paints in combination with some delightful blocks which allow to create very own piece of fabric, but just as a reminder you do need to work onto paper first. Then you can transfer these images onto fabric, another reminder that this has to be polyster to get good results.
You could also rummage around the house and find items, a kind of recycling, such as polystyrene chips (peanuts if you are in the USA), nicely shaped lids for instance, which can also be used as printing items.
More help and inspiration is available from Mary in her book ‘Transfer Painting’, of which this idea is just one chapter. You can find more about this book in our website here.
Mary has several workshops with us, which you can enjoy by using this quick search link and there are also chapters in the book mentioned above.
Click here to learn more about Mary Gamester.
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