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Soy Wax on Paper

Posted on by under sketch book

When my local group did soy wax a couple of weeks ago, I did quite a few prints of soy wax on paper. These are just a few of them.

Leaves

This one was a basic leaf shape.

Purple and Green Circles

And this was a variety of circles. I used Dye-na-Flow paints to color the page after the soy wax was applied.

Rows of Circles

After the paint has dried, I ironed the paper between scrap newspaper to remove the wax. Then I like to add colored pencil as I have done with the design above. I’m not sure if this one is finished or not but it might be. Probably needs a bit darker values in there somewhere though. Hope you have a good weekend.

Soy Wax and Shibori

Posted on by under surface design

My local surface design group met today and we played with soy wax and shibori. We have done both of these techniques separately but haven’t combined the two before.

Soy Wax Tools

We brought a bunch of different items to apply the soy wax to fabric and paper.

Soy Wax Set Up

Bunny had everything set up for us, we turned on the electric skillet with the soy wax and it melted very quickly. So we were ready to go.

I had previously stitched a few pieces to shibori and Bunny had wrapped some pieces of silk on a pole ready to go. We applied soy wax to the shibori pieces and then added dye afterwards. We used Color Hue dyes which don’t require any sort of pre-treatment to the fabric and set almost immediately.

I had a bunch of pieces of fabric that had either been painted or dyed before. I added soy wax with a variety of tools.

Soy Wax and Dye Applied to Multi Color Fabric

And then added the Color Hue dyes.

Here you can see Bunny and Louise adding dye to their fabric that had already had the soy wax applied. I am now waiting for the fabric to dry and then I have to iron the wax out of all the pieces. So I will have to show you the results later. We had a good time and I think I made some pretty ugly fabric somewhat better. But I guess we’ll see!