Wednesday, September 28, 2011

A Fugitive Medium Experiment

Today I am being an artist/scientist and experimenting.  I have two pieces of fabric that I ice-dyed at the same time.  The two fabrics looked very floral to me so I decided to enhance that fabric story.  I then drew petal shapes around dye blobs on both fabrics with a micron pen. So far, I have treated them the same.

For my independent variable (or is it dependent variable?  I get confused) I used two different fugitive media.  For one I use water-color pencils--not inktense--and for the second I used chalk pastels.

 I took the two samples around to everyone in my office for their opinions about which turned out better and why.  Very interesting results.  So, which do you like better?  I am not telling you which one is the pencil and which one is the chalk till I get some input from y'all.  So, with some pictures closer than other and in no particular order--

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Two

Three

Four

Five
Six

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6 comments:

  1. Kathy MolatchSeptember 28, 2011 at 5:34 PM

    I'm partial to #4. Love the windblown flower look.

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  2. Kit LangSeptember 28, 2011 at 7:33 PM

    Yup. I like #4 too. :)

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  3. Quilter BethSeptember 28, 2011 at 10:03 PM

    It was close between 3 and 4 for me, but 4 wins my vote too.

    I got my chalk pastels today and am hoping to have time to "play" Friday or Sunday. I really like the results you all are getting. I hope I have the same success.

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  4. LauraSeptember 29, 2011 at 9:09 AM

    It's hard to see the differences unless you can see them in person, but #5 is my favorite.

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  5. BethSeptember 29, 2011 at 9:48 AM

    I like #3 because it reminds me of a patch of heavily flowered lawn. I can see even more flowers than have been outlined so far.

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  6. Karen SSeptember 29, 2011 at 11:04 AM

    I like 'em all -- but four and six really do it for me -- maybe because they have the most color variation?

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