"Inspiration exists, but it must find us working."
Pablo Picasso
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| Eco printing with walnut leaves on a gourd. I was messing around with eco printing on porcelain and then decided to see what would happen to a gourd, since I have a lot of them. I never had figured out exactly what I wanted to do with them-maybe this was the idea that was supposed to come along. |
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| I soaked the gourds, the plant material, and the wrapping all in iron water and used leaves that usually work well with iron, kind of stacking the odds in my favor. Getting a gourd to actually soak is kind of trick-they want to bob around. As long as they don't have any cracks or holes they do not get mushy. |
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| Trying to figure out how to keep the leaves attached until I could wrap the blanket around it. This worked pretty well. |
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| Wrapped up and getting ready to steam. Needless to say the lid wouldn't go on the pan, so I made it a foil tent and steamed it for an hour. Since we have now officially run out of summer here (13 degrees last week-yikes!) gourds will have to wait until next year. I am getting some things together with the porcelain, pictures soon! |
The holidays are coming! As promised I did put some scarves in the
Etsy shop, along with many new buttons, pendants, and papers so be sure to check that out.
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