I'm experimenting with alcohol ink because it's a really quick drying fluid way to create color and it works on both paper & fabric. Today's experiment was to see if an alcohol ink bird done on glass could be successfully printed on fabric. Here is the starting bird shape.
This was done using a nasal syringe to blow the ink around and see if I had enough control to create shapes. If I were finishing this as a bird piece of art, I would add details and more with ink pens along with a background. But first, I wanted to see if my ideas about how to transfer from the glass to fabric would work.
I stabilized a piece of white cotton by ironing it to a scrap piece of freezer paper. I let that sit overnight, and today I sprayed the fabric with 90% isopropyl alcohol to reactivate the alcohol ink that is on the glass. Then I used my favorite brayer to rub to make sure the ink transferred. There was some ink left on the glass but what did transfer did not seriously run or bleed so I'm fairly happy with this outcome.
There is some blurring of the edges so I would definitely want to sharpen the details with the ink pens if I was using this technique for the foreground of a piece. This will however be an excellent way to create moody backgrounds and I'm looking forward to more experimentation.
