Ink, Bleach and Rust

I've been playing around with inks and bleach again.

I mainly use deep canvasses, unfortunately the way I've taken the photographs makes them look very distorted.
This one is scrim and lace glued on with PVA and covered with Dragons Breath ink.



A layer of Iron Gall ink was then added.

Regular readers will know that way back in March of this year I blogged about using these two inks together when I discovered that if you layer them up and add a coating of Acrylic Wax you get this effect:

Which I then made into this- 'Once in a house on fire':
You can read the rest of the post which explains exactly what I did by clicking here.

This time I decided not to use Acrylic Wax but used Metallic Effects paint and a rust activator instead.

And here is the result:



Pat from Altering Thoughts sent me some lovely pieces of lace recently and the canvas below shows how I used some of this along with scrim.

I used white household emulsion paint to adhere these pieces to the canvas. I then mixed Black writing ink with Turquoise writing ink and layered it over the top. Bleach was poured into the centre only and allowed to run out to the edges in places. Pewter Treasure Gold was rubbed on the high spots of the lace then I finished it off with a layer of Acrylic Wax.

Even though I have already coated this canvas with Acrylic Wax I don't think it is quite finished yet. I'll leave it for a while before I decide what to do with it.

This last one is not very exciting at all, but I thought I would still explain how I did it.
I used a thick cotton thread to stitch through the plain canvas. I then applied a layer of Golden Pumice Gel Medium and when this was dry I covered the whole canvas with PVA and scrim.
I then painted different colours of calligraphy ink on, covered with black writing ink and sprayed bleach on in places.

This one will definitely go in the discarded pile. Even if I apply gesso over the top ready for re-painting, I think the cotton thread I used is far too heavy for a canvas this size.