Virginia A. Spiegel

Shiva Artist’s Oil Color Paintstiks aren’t something I use everyday, but sometimes they are just the ticket. I used them in the Boundary Waters series for writing and, at the risk of spoiling my holiday card surprise, here’s a few recent experiments:

I’m starting with fabric that has already been painted, screenprinted, stamped, etc. These are fabrics that I either haven’t gone far enough with yet or just went a little overboard. I only use fabric I “make” myself in my art and generally paint and do surface design without a specific purpose in mind, so “weird” fabrics don’t bother me.

Here are the stamps I used for these rubbings with Shiva Paintstiks. These are made with a Speedball lino cutter and Blicks EZ Cut. A few are mounted on wood. These are several years old and still going strong. You can see I have used them a lot in my fabric painting.

The technique couldn’t be easier. Slide stamp under fabric, rub with Shiva Paintstik.

Here I added just a hint of lettering to the piece above with my un-fancy plate made from wooden letters glued to wood.

Here’s the painted and screenprinted brown fabric with gold Shiva. I only need small pieces for this project, so I’m not looking for whole-cloth beauty here. Just a lot of interest in a small space.

Here is that crazy purple fabric and the first layer. I use only iridescent Shivas for a project like this and try not to use too much of any one image. Layer, layer, layer - color and image.

Here are two more layers coming along. Notice the commercial square stamp. I find a checkerboard to be useful and not a stamp I feel compelled to make. The finished fabric opened this post and here it is again:

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