Color Your World.
Well it's been awhile since I have shared anything new here but today I spent the entire day playing with coloring cheese cloth and scrim; a very loose weave fabric. I used various house hold acrylics, as well as concentrated water colors and my results proved to be exciting. 
This is color washed cheese cloth. I diluted the paints with water and gave each piece a bath, wrung it out and set it out on plastic sheeting to dry by our heat vents.
This is color washed scrim which I put through the same process as the cheese cloth. I love the various shades of color from intense to subtle. Some of the paints I used were metallic so those pieces have a shimmery affect but does not show up in the photographs.
I have also spent the last 2 weeks experimenting with house hold acrylic paint, ( the paint you use on the interior walls of your home ) as an alternative for creating backgrounds for collages and then enhancing the pieces with my more expensive artist paints. You can purchase household acrylic in quarts for a few dollars more than a 1oz. bottle of paint and the new color saturations on some house hold paint is as intense as other highly pigmented artist grade paints. And whole new range of glazes as well as metallic colors are now available. The drying time is no different than other acrylics and I found it works well on canvas and water color paper but also can be used in art journals with to background paint pages.
It all began when I picked up some paint to paint an old sewing table I had been meaning to do for the last few years that had been rescued ages ago from the dumpster. DH fixed it up and all it needed was some paint to return it to being a wanted and much loved piece of furniture. ( I will share it's once it's finished.) I had not been in the paint aisle in years and found myself surrounded by intense colors as well as new options for texture and so I ended up experimenting with the paint and a whole new world of color options opened up to me.
Go color your world. Your palette awaits.
