My Fugitive Jungle

This is from Judith DeMilo Brown from 2011. This may look

 like printed cloth but no, she drew this herself and then....



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.