Painting and Rust

I had been busy fabric painting yesterday and when it was dry I noticed the leaves had created a sunprint where I had left the fabric to dry against them. It got me thinking what if I painted a piece of fabric and laid the rusty old train wheels on it to dry. Well I tried it. Here you can see it lying in the sun to dry.

Here is the finished piece. I laid the fabric on bubble wrap, bubble side up, it was a wet on wet technique. The result is the texture of the bubble wrap has also transfered to the fabric together with the train wheels - and a little bit of rust here and there! What do you think?

Initially when I thought of doing it I was looking to have a piece of fabric to use as the backing for the rust silk piece but this is too nice to use for the backing ....... or is it?

I haven't painted on 100% cotton polpin and so I thought I would try it. These are two pieces I painted using fabric paints. I haven't tried acrylic yet but will before the week is out.

The have turned out quite well and will make good backgrounds for my Journal Quilts. I still have June/July/Aug and September to do. I had better get moving.