Painting Al Fresco- sun dyeing experiment

Sunny day...Check!
Cool comfortable weather...check!
No pressing schedule....check!
can't find the gift you bought for your friend's birthday so you want to make her something?? check!
I got this stuff out...

dy-na-flow paint, plastic takeaway cutlery, white fabric dampened, foamcore palette with freezer paper.
I started by pouring paint ( these are already thinned). Nice! Used all the colors. After the paint spread, I went to the yard, placed the cutlery on the painted fabric. Some leaves blew on so I left them and added some more.

Then I took another FQ of wet fabric, poured paint on, smooshed that one into a lump, and take it out to cook in the sun.

Some spiders crawled over and made the whole thing more halloween-y. As it dries, the pigment migrates away from the shadowed areas (cutlery) leaving an impression. Couldn't be easier except...
It works much better with really flat items so the knives and handles worked but the rest not so much.
Cole, ever interested in what Momma's doing, came by...

"There may be forks but it doesn't smell like food... and Momma has that "don't touch" look in her eye"
So he did his best guard dog impression...

After it dried, I peeked under the plastic to see if it worked. Is it interesting enough to send to my friend with the bit of gift I could find?
Here it is after drying and pressing with a hot dry iron to set the color...
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You might be able to see the spoon, knives and fork on this shot, I got clear images of at least two forks, two spoons and four knives. The leaves, although flat, did not imprint at all.
So here's what I learned:
I think you need a hotter day, to dry it faster in order to get the pigment to move quickly enough to see a good edge.
Pouring the paint on left a lot more color and I like it... my other FQ is paler because I daubed the paint on with a sponge brush. Not quite enough pigment for me but it's perfect for a background or stenciling.
I call the experiment a success as I had fun, got to play with color, and see the cutlery images.
 stay tuned to see how I use the piece I kept....