Orvieto Window

I take photos wherever I go. I may not do anything with them for a while but then I will get the urge.

This little window grill appealed to me when I was last in Orvieto and now that I am getting ready to return there in September I felt the time was right.

I made a thermofax screen of the design after tweaking it a bit in Photoshop to get rid of the background glass. It was a bit right but once it was printed out I filled in some of the gaps with black pen.

Here is the screen

I painted the fabric in a few of the Sun Dye Paints - they were the perfect colours I wanted.

I started to print using Opulence Paints with the screen and was playing around with colours and level of dilution so it was a bit of a mess but then I realised I really liked the pattening on the fabric so I filled the piece randomly with prints.

I also did a few better ones with space around them to isolate them.

I also had some other stamps that I had made inspired by shapes in Orvieto so I stamped and rubbed some more fabrics in the same colourways.

Then I just started cutting them into random strips and played till I was happy with the layout.

Of course it changed as I stitched and grew a bit but I love the rich colours

Not sure how I am going to quilt it yet but maybe an overlay is needed. Will keep you posted.