Helen O'Hara – Community Artist – Joondalup, Perth, WA

Tuesday, 15 August 2017

Melting With Cardboard Resist


Today I experimented with using cardboard shapes as a protection from the heat gun.

First I layered up felt and organza and drew around the shapes with the soldering iron to lightly fuse them to the fabric. These shapes are from Scrapmatts.


Next I blasted the fabric with my heat gun.


After pulling off the shapes it looks like this:


Next I pulled off the top layer of organza around the shapes to make them stand out more.


More layers were pulled off and details added with the soldering iron.





Here's another piece using the same techniques:



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