Jan 26
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.
More of the keys from yesterday’s photo session. What a strange concept, thinking of myself having had a photo session! I printed them on fabric, then trimmed them out and fused them onto the postcard. I like the colors of them, and the contrast with the orange ribbon, and the way the ribbon flows off the card. I added the little gold one as an afterthought, but now it is clearly the postcard of the golden key.
I spent more time this morning working on fabric-for-the-future. This morning was experimenting with Pebeo paints. The use of keys as texture underneath the fabric was not a huge success. Sunprinting worked best with the flat keys because the contact with the surface was cleanest. I think some really bright lights would make shadows that would do interesting things, but working with the relatively diffuse light in the kitchen doesn’t quite cut it.
There are a couple of experiments with taking rubbings from some keys. The round barreled ones don’t work at all, nor the ones with the open heads, but the classic Yale-type ones do quite nicely. I ahve both Crayola fabric craons and Pentel fabric dyes in sticks which feel and work like oil pastels. I could also try the Shiva paint sticks. The rubbings mostly resist the paint as it goes on, making the images pop in a cool way.
Lee Thomson 