Experiment with 'paints'

[lyn]

When you paint, yellow + blue = green. So I was curious as to whether an applied colour would alter according to the colour of the felt it was applied to.

For instance, if you had a multi-colour piece of felt and wanted to 'paint' fine grasses on it, wouldn't it look good if the grasses appeared multi-coloured but were done with one colour.

I made a piece of stripey felt for the experiment (very pretty it looked too... before I started....sort of ice-cream colours).

Please enlarge the photo - you can see it clearly then.

Top left corner:
I had an old rubber stamp ink pad left over from my card making days, so I stamped it onto the felt. The colours of the felt underneath did result in a few different hues and it would have been interesting to cut some stamp pads about to make shapes, BUT, even after several days, the ink remained wet and would come away on my fingers.

Rest of the top row:
I used highlighter pens to make leaf shapes. Where I shaded in, the texture of the felt looked interesting, and there was some colour change especially with the yellow - you can see several different hues along the row (in the enlarged photo).

Bottom row:
I used watered down acrylic paints to make leaf shapes.
The outer line is 'drawn' using the edge of a sponge and the paint was dabbed on.
The line running down through the middle was poked into the felt using a cotton bud.
There was no colour change with the paint dabbed on but it made an interesting texture.
There was a slight change with the paint that had been poked in, but not much.

Ah well, not what I'd hoped for, but nothing ventured......

[Shepherdess]

They are interesting. I would have thought the translucent markers would change more than they did. I wonder if you tried some dye solution if it would work better. If you search Ruth's blog i think there is something about using dyes to stamp and paint. maybe she will leave us in interesting comment and link.

[koffipot]

Results are always interesting, even if they're not what you were hoping for. As Ann says, perhaps dyes would give more colour change.

[MTRuth]

I didn't really try color mixing per se when I did my dye experiments with stamping etc. It's a very interesting experiment. Is everything dry? Perhaps it will change over time as well. I can definitely see that some color mixing did occur.

[lyn]

Yes Ruth - I did this about a week before I took the photo and everything dried completely - except for the ink pad squares (top left corner) which still come away if you touch.

Like all experiments, this info may come in useful one day.

[MTRuth]

I wonder why the ink didn't dry. That seems weird.

[zed]

That looks really cool lyn
Good experiment. Are the inks alcohol inks? I had some inks that wouldn't dry on shiny stuff, maybe wool being waterproof acts the same way?

[lyn]

Zed - I just checked the outer case of the ink pad. There's no writing or brand or anything at all to identify. Must have been a real cheapo I picked up somewhere!

[karen]

I think it looks pretty cool Lyn, i have some inks from when i did pergamano so i wonder how they would go with felt,

[jufergu]

Have you tried a product called Staz On inks. I am using it on fabric. It even works on glass. I have also done some silk scarf art with Sharpie Pens. But the colors don't blend with the Sharpie ink until you spray them with alcohol. So that would not work with wool.