So, not having had time to go and buy new Steam-A-Seam II (there's no place close to me that has it), I had to come up with an alternative solution. I had some bits of already fused fabric in black - mostly wool which would have been unsuitable - but I did find some heavy weight black satin that I had fused with Misty Fuse (boo hiss!).

 

So I had painted up some lutradur in broad strokes, 

...begun the work of burning out some shadows...

... making progress... and then ERRRRRR! Slam on the breaks. I was using my very favourite fusible, Steam A Seam II, except, except, I had picked up a few metres of it the last time I was visiting family in the small-ish city in which they live, and didn't realize until I'd done all this work, that I had purchased the failed, crappy version of Steam A Seam II that has the crappy, impossible to remove release paper, rather than the re-released Steam A Seam II (the one with the blue parchment paper if you're wondering) and so I had to bin this work, plus the 3 metres of it that I had purchased. 

It was supposed to go on this. Which of course, now it won't. <SIGH!!!!!>

Here, have a picture of a sleepy studio cat instead. :)

 

 

Anddddddd.... done!

I haven't been able to get the lighting quite right in my new studio (it will come with time!) so I haven't been able to take really stellar photos yet. But perhaps you can see that now that it's done, that ...  

So, remember on Wednesday, when I said I'd forgotten what this background was for? I really didn't, I just didn't want to say it was for birch trees, because that's all I've got. *heh*  Anyway, I started with...

These are all cotton muslin backgrounds, treated with gesso, and then painted with acrylic paints. This top one will be about...?  Something to do with a sunset, perhaps. ;)

This next one...