I picked up this $60 electric frying pan. Because I am going to fry my quilt. lol
Well, okay, not really. So, here's a question. Have you seen Riusuke Fukahori's work?
If not, you're probably saying to yourself "Why is she showing us a picture of some goldfish in a wooden tub?" And if you're saying that, you would be WRONG. Because that is a picture of a painting of goldfish in a tub.
And after you've thought about that for a second, you're probably saying "Wait. ... What?" (I know, right?)
So, what he does is he takes the tub see, and he pours some resin in it to where the bottom layer of the fish would start. Say, an inch and 1/2 of a resin.
And then, once the resin is dry, he paints the outline of some goldfish. And then, when that's dry, he paints a thin layer of resin over top of it all, waits until that dries, and then paints some of the filler of the goldfish body on top of the prior layers, and waits for them to dry. And then he paints another layer of resin over it all, and then another layer of goldfish body etc..; and he does this every day for like, a month (I assume, because a single layer of resin takes 12 hours to dry); and he continues to do this until he has what looks like a group of 3 dimensional goldfish swimming around in water. Except they're painted on resin in the tub. How cool is that?
Here's a video about him - there used to be one where he actually showed the process using time-lapse photograhpy, (which is the one I saw); but unfortunately, that one was taken down due to copyright violations.
So, I saw that video 3 months or so ago, and I thought it was really cool but had nothing to do with me. But the technique kept popping into my head at odd moments, and I wondered whether or not it could be done with fiber art. And whenever that question popped in to my head, I would say "no" to that question, and go on to other things, and several days later, this little voice would pipe up with a "Why not?"
Which is why...
Because I figured, encaustic wax and fiber art go together (at least in some circles); and it dries pretty translucent - and this particular encaustic wax says it dries clear. Pretty exciting, right?
So, here's my little cottage in the woods background, on a cookie tray from the dollar store lined with parchment paper, next to my brand new encaustic-melting-skillet and a cool new brush for encaustic wax, and here I go! (It's a nail-biter, I'm telling you!)
So, I melted the encaustic wax and painted a thin layer of it over my quilted back-ground, and waited anxiously for it to dry. And while I was waiting for it to dry, a blob of the melted wax that had been dropped on the paper next to it dried.
I know, I know!!!!!!!!!
It's so obvious, right?
Acccccck!!!!
See what happens next on Friday....
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