What else ---- I went to a workshop.
I took a 2 hour trip with a friend to a small village down on the South Coast of NSW called Mogo.
Mogo is one of those lovely little places that are craft dedicated and you can spend hours just wandering in and out of shops and the food is fantastic (well what we had was)
We had a 3 hour class in Japanese techniques for dyeing papers.
Even though I had done some of the things before it was nice to sit in a small classroom (it could only take 6 students) doing something that was so relaxing (and messy) on a beautiful Autumn day in pleasant company.
One of the techniques was called Orizomegami ---the art of paper folding and dipping in inks to form patterns.
I am always amazed at what you see when you unfold the papers.
The first 3 pages are in this technique...and we used rice paper and writing inks.
The next technique is Paper Batik....
We brushed wax on the paper first in strokes and then gave the page a wash in yellow watercolours.
Then we brushed on more wax and applied more colours after the wax dried.
When the papers were dry we ironed them between paper to get rid of the wax.
I rather liked doing this and in the comort of my own home I will do lots more .
This last piece of paper was used to clean out the ink containers .....
What a great day......
15 comments:
Nice bright colours Doreen! I really like the look of the wax technique..VERY cool.
Wow....these are all so vibrant and rich looking. I love the colors in the first ones especially. And I even like the paper you used to clean up with!! What a fun day you had.
These look great Doreen! What a fun day.
FUN! Will these techniques find an application in fabric?
gorgeous result...my pupils at school also made a lot of these japanese paintings....I love the bright colours and the thin paper....
Regards Barbara
What lovely papers, must see what inks I have.
The resolution I made last week that I wasn't going to buy anything more till I have used up what I had has just gone out the window - I need to buy some inks to try this!
What a wonderful day you had Doreen!
What a fun day. Your papers are nice. Sandy
Dooreen, these are fabulous, what a great extra day and class it must have been. I to classes, learning is so much fun.
You must had a lot of fun, these look lovely Doreen.
What a great workshop, Doreen, You've made some great samples, I must have a go at this. Thanks for sharing it with us.
wow, very cool. good use of that extra day!
Doreen - these look absolutely fabulous and even better in real life. I love them. Suzanne
What gorgeous papers! And that sounds like a lovely class.
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