The Day We Ironed Our Artwork!

This all started when Jo came up with an idea she had once tried involving ironing wax crayons. Somehow things moved on from this and we kept experimenting and changing things until we ended up with something we were happy with.

First we drew shapes and designs in oil pastels. Then we washed over the top in coloured inks, scrunched up the paper and ironed it underneath a protective sheet with a very hot iron. This dried out the work. Then we took this and worked over it again in oil pastel, gave a second ink wash and ironed it once more. We liked the effect of the inks and oil pastels oozing into the creases and the breaks and tears appearing in the sheets.