Continuing progress with the fabric painting exercise to make decorative soft necklace adornments….almost finished with three more.

All layered and stitched together, will be reevaluating in the morning lighting with a fresh look to see if final paint retouching might be necessary.

Learning that fabric selection is of the utmost importance.

Part of being self taught tinker creative adventurer is learning with practice.

In my case I expect much like a musician the more you practice the better results you get.

That was my method years ago with drawing and painting.

This projects findings showed more favorable characteristics.

Compared to the stiff synthetic polyester patterned DT placement the use of the Waverley fat quarter cotton squares with felt interior are yielding a softer more pliable and almost posable result.

The lack of the need to prime the fabrics surface helped significantly.

The thin soft fabric sandwich stitched in a lovely manner as you’d expect and created a nice quilted outline dimension to enhance the painted details.

These butterflies were paint stamped rather than hand drawn and the rather generic image was altered somewhat to suit my desired swallowtail image inspiration.

Stamping does offers nice uniformity.

Nice sameness feature for gifting sisters.

Fabric stamping is fun and less tedious and messy than what I seem to remember with screen printing. Avoiding the screen printing for now with my hand troubles and related clumsiness.

Did two butterflies with antennae and one without reviewing that for a preference.

Also instead of using the muted completely fabricated custom dyed and hand stamped necklace strips this time used some ripped strips of a thrifted batik remnant giving some dynamic contrast and a bolder visual interest.

So many different choices this time around and a better result.

Learning a lot with the manual practice in a-figure-it-out- self taught exercise.

Lesson here was to use natural fabric.

No priming.

The Testors is thick and creamy enough that it sits on the fabric nicely without bleeding. It even covered part of the stamp imprint I wished to edit.

6/25 final edit:

Made antennae for the single butterfly used soft bristles from an inexpensive paint brush, paint and glue.

It’s interesting to push, force the use of paint onto different surfaces.

It becomes a challenge into the unknown demands dealing with unexpected considerations encountered along the way.

More butterflies….looking better