Dip-Dye Ok, I had goggle this prompt. Fun. It’s time to work in neutrals today. Dip fabric scrap in coffee and then India ink. Stitch the prompt. Illustrate with Stabilo-All pencil and Bleed-Proof white. Find some text to fill in the blank space. Enter a moment of magical serendipity.  Serendipity x 2 1. I opened my favorite book* to a random page, and glanced at the paragraph at the bottom of the page. How magical is it that THIS is the paragraph for this prompt? Embroidered texture? Torn cloth? Wow, unbelievable. 2. Opening my journal to glue this in, I was stunned to realize that this is the facing page to the Landscape prompt, the page where I used fiber paste that looks like fabric. OMG. Chills.  * The Book of Joy by Dalai Lama & Desmond TuTu Art is such a blessing!  #tuac5minchallenge  

 Landscape This may be the coolest art thing I have ever tried . . . FIBER PASTE! With all the dizzying array of mediums on art store shelves, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. What does each of them do? Of the texture pastes available, I have only tried crackle paste until I discovered fiber paste. OMG! When dry and peeled off plastic, it looks much like fabric if smoothed down with a palette knife. If roughly applied, it has these lovely peaks and valleys like snowdrifts or . . . WAVES. I went with the wave idea and used watercolors to create a seascape. The surface accepts watercolor like good cotton paper. I’m gonna be buying a vat of this stuff!!!! Endless possibilities and such fun to mold and paint. Yahoo!!! #tuac5minchallenge