Lately, I’ve been trying to dye fabrics to a larger scale. I feel like I succeeded with the one on the right. I screened red on through some construction fencing, and then added some blue-green squares. It should be very usable.
I like the large red circles on the left one, but the design reads a little Christmasy. It will probably need further attention.
I’m drooling over the orange and blue “twiggy” fabric, below left. It will take a good bit of thought, I imagine, to figure out what to do with it while till maintaining the “twigginess.” The pink and white fabric below was made as a “ghost print” from some red screening. I think it will work with some of these, too.
I also did some deconstructed screen printing. With it you let dye dry onto a screen and then later screen a color or clear paste through it. The original dried dye initially acts as a resist and later breaks down, adding its own color to the mix. With this one, I drew on horizontal and vertical lines using all my warm dyes: yellow, orange, red, and fuchsia, and let it dry (over 2 days!) I screened clear paste through, which eventually took on t he other colors and finished to a nice peach.This is detail shot.
I don’t normally work with pastels so I’ll have to dye a few more to go with this one. I’ve got lots of fun stuff to think about!
Ellen Lindner
P.S. Each of these fabrics is about 43″ on the longest side.
That looks like such fun. I’d like to do something with inking one of these days when i find time.
It IS fun, Linda. Inking would be too!
The images are not showing up for me. Just the text. They used to show a while back has something changed?
Hi Annette,
Thanks for letting me know. I don’t know what’s going on with the images. Did you read the post in your email or on the web? If in your email, try clicking on the “View online” (or similar wording) and see if that does the trick. Or sometimes just refreshing the page will do it.
I love the color combinations. This must have been lots of fun!
Thanks, Mary Frances. Yes, it was!
Every time I look at one of your posts I want to drop everything and do what you did!
Gee, Lif, it sure would be fun to have you in the studio with me! It’s always fun. (And challenging, which I like.)
The pictures are not coming through with the text. Love your work and seeing each step
Hi Lois,
Thanks for letting me know. I don’t know what’s going on with the images. Did you read the post in your email or on the web? If in your email, try clicking on the “View online” (or similar wording) and see if that does the trick. Or sometimes just refreshing the page will do it.
I’m glad you like the step by step. I always wondering if I’m boring my audience with so much detail.