Citrasolv Art

Today I was looking through my Citrasolv Experiments, some of which I printed on fabric.  It's a fun, kind of smelly process that allows you to dissolve and distort the ink from some glossy magazine pictures to create great textural papers.  For more info on the process go to http://www.citrasolv.com/  Once there go to their Artist Support section and scroll down to Artist Galleries.  Sarah Winkler,  http://www.citrasolv.com/art/sarahw.html  who had a studio in Studios on the Park, Paso Robles,  was the first artist, whose work I saw utilized these textues in a fabulous way.  She gave a short workshop on how to create them using Citrasolv, which is a cleaning fluid, on National Geographic Magazine pages.  Basically, you brush or rub a rag saturated with the citrasolve over the page you desire and then close the magazine up for anywhere from 20 minutes to 24 hours, putting something heavy on it.   Then you have to dry and air out the papers.  Here's a link to a video about it, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5FQ6KAbPOM  Just google citrasolv transfers and there's lots of information out there about it.

Here's some papers I made.  I've transferred some of these to fabrics and am playing around with them. I love the abstract quality of them.