Hello guy's, how are you all doing today, lately have been thinking of doing something new, something I can stick to for a long time, something you will know me for, so I decided to go for textile on paper, textile has been my favorite course right from school, it takes a lot of time and effort but I love it still, so I have decided to stick with Ankara textile the Yoruba design, and I will be sharing with you every process.
Firstly I stretch my cardboard on a board with water tape and I wet it with water and I let it dry overnight, the next day I drew my patterns on the plain cardboard, the patterns I used is called floral mofits (leaves) this patterns represents life and sustenance in the Yoruba culture, after drawing the patterns (the small and the big leaves) I prepared my background colors the green and the yellow, for the green I mixed poster green and yellow ochre together, and for the yellow I mixed poster white and yellow ochre together to get the yellow, and I splashed the two colors (the green and the yellow) on the background, after that I mixed poster red and vermilion together for the big leaves,after applying it on the big leaves the remaining color I added a bit of Prussian blue to it and mixed it together for the small leaves and I applied it, after applying the paints on the motifs (the leaves) I used black paint to outline ever motifs to make them pop out, and I used the black for the dots on the big leaves to make it more beautiful.
The materials I used for these beautiful Ankara textile on paper is: board, cardboard, water tape, poster colors also know as smartkids colors, brush point 0 and 2, and palette for mixing of the colors.
Thanks guys for checking out my page😍🤗.
Hi, @nucleus-tezz/
An interesting and different proposal.
You focus on ancestral culture. Does the motif you use mean or represent something?
Did you know that there's a canvas painting contest being held this week? Check it out, maybe you'll be inspired to participate.
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Thank you so much for your kind words, and yes the motif has a name like I stated in my post it is called floral motif and it represents life and sustenance.
Thank you so much for the update.🥰
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Çardboard with me, or what I call cardboard, looks different (more like what we make boxes out.
What I don't understand is why you make it wet and let it dry overnight. What is the plus of doing that?
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Moistening the cardboard that will serve as the canvas and securing it flat with adhesive tape is a preliminary technique used for water-based pigments. (It also applies to a sheet of paper.)
This prepares it and prevents it from bending or warping when you begin painting with tempera, gouaches, or watercolors.
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Exactly thank you
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Smiles cardboards can be used for so many things,like drawing, painting and even making different things with it like cube and other objects, and the reason it must be wet is so that the colors can sink in very well and to give it the Ankara look,it's like the reason you prime a canvas.
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