Something to play with.......

.... I have a lot of toys and some I haven't played with for a while.  With last weeks Sunday papers there  was a supplement which had great fashion pictures on a rather nice paper and I suddenly wondered if Citra-solve would work. Haven't even thought about it since this post  in 2011. To my delight it worked

Then I wondered what would happen if I put it through a stencil?

That worked too.  I thought they would make good backgrounds so I scanned them in and then I played a bit more. I combined them digitally in  Paintshop Pro..

this one used one of Seth Apter's stencils.

Here are the stencil masks I used. Please feel free to use.

Now I want to incorporate them into some kind of book pages. We'll see.

Week 11 in 1 Year of Stitches and my little clump of trees looks like this.

I have prepared things for the exhibition, a bit of a chore,  I love making, not too keen on finishing off.

Some time ago I made these art prompts

Wanting to play with paint I drew out three, funnily enough they turned out to be March,Rain and Peeling Paint

Here it is tidied.  The tree is made from a technique I learned from the late Renate Keeping, on memorable visit to ~The Keeping Gallery.

 

This has gone in my "Because I Felt Like It" book..

Citra solv

Thank you to the people who have commented on my last post.  I really can do no better than point you to the instructional videos on the Citra-solv site just click here. There are others on You Tube.  It is incedibly smelly so it is best used out of doors unless you want your house to smell like a marmalade factory.

 This is the one you want, as they make a lot of other products, but you need the concentrate.

I have read that the older National Geographics give a much stronger effect, it is something to do with the method used for printing  but I was happy with the results I achieved on the current issue. Thank you all for your interest, enjoy.

PS There is a lavender perfumed one as well I believe but that is also out of stock on the Ecohip site.Please note I have no affiliation of any of these companies.

Just my luck...

Ever since I read about it some years ago I have been wanting to try Citra solv.  A couple of weeks ago I found it was available through Amazon so I ordered a small bottle and bought myself a copy of the National Geographic magazine. i was delighted with the results and immediately ordered a large bottle only to find that the suppliers Ecohip were out stock so I will have to wait before I can experiment further but this is a sample so far.

 I loved this one

and played with it in PSP. and liked it even more.

I then took a selection from it and it became this

A sort of Tolkien landscape, I think.

I hope the new stock comes in soon.