Yesterday's progress

Here's what it looks like today. The camelion is in its initial stage of creation. It gets better with work.
I am planning on adding more leaves, eventually :)

Background by monoprint

Started a new piece today. It will be a background of tropical type forest and a camelion. Playing around with printing leaves and coloring the background too. This is a far as I've come today. Had other stuff to do too - what's with that?Adding more to this tomorrow :)

Experiment and Voila!

I got a set of Gyotaku (which means fish printing) leaves - go figure and one fish for Christmas. Decided to try it this morning. Yesterday I washed some plain fabric in order to do this.
The idea is not new, but I have never done this and I do like mono-printing and waiting until something grows again so I can have great leaves is like waiting for paint to dry.
This is my result from a few tries this morning.I love this! The recommendation is to place your fabric or paper onto the painted object, but I seem to do better the other way round.
I intend to overdye this little tableau once it is dry and thoroughly pressed. We will see later how it comes out.

So Today.......It Is Almost Finshed

I have to sew on the handles  :)  That's it and this one is done.

I am pretty happy with the whole thing.

And then...

Here's the front of the bag. I added a little more fabric paint where the ferns are - some were just too pale for my liking.

24 hours later

Now I did some quilting and highlighting of the printed ferns I did yesterday. Things are getting better.
Can't wait until the show and Pro Chem.........I need to see the fabric paint, maybe get a few.

I took off the freezer paper and I think you get the idea I am trying to convey?

Attempting to mono print some fern

Getting the right color to show up good on this green is harder than I thought it would be. BUT, just like painting for me, I need to just walk away and leave it alone.
It's drying right now and I will see how it worked out later.

Here is the front and back of the unconstructed bag, guts and all. The front has a piece of freezer paper over the store bought batik printed fabric.