I have been playing around with doodles for a while. Here is the biggest and latest doodle. The piece is a fat half of cotton and is destined as a prize on "And then they set it on fire."
First I started off with white cloth that I doodled with a black gel pen--nothing special--not meant for fabric. Whenever I would stop, I would iron it to try and heat set the ink.
Then I colored it in with water-soluble pencils. I used them both dry and dipped into water. Not too much water cause that would make the gel pen ink blur. Kept ironing it too.
When I was done coloring it, I brushed it with print paste to bond the ink and pencil to the fabric. That made the colors and ink a bit more fuzzy. When that had dried I gave it a coat of very diluted blue Setacolor to blend the colors and background. When it was dry and with much trepidation I threw it into the washing machine. VOILA! The inks/colors stayed!! You can not believe how excited I was over that! Last step was to put a little smooch in spots to give a little shine.
First piece I have finished to this extent. I need much more practice but I am pleased by the experiment. Yep, tonight I expect a second piece will get started.
