It is still cold up here in the mountains but the days are clear and sunny. On our last day in the dye studio, I printed with 2 more deconstructed screens. Last time I put too much thickened dye on the screen & didn’t squeegee it on so the dye came off in lumps & […]
Read More...While in the paper/dying studio, Ingrid gave us a demo on making a deconstructed screen for printing on fabric with thickened dye. The screen needs to be left to dry before being used to push dye through onto cloth. I soaked fabric in soda ash and hung it to dry in preparation for printing on. […]
Read More...For the past few weeks I have been working with a grades 11 & 12 art class as they learn how to dye and paint fabric. They random-dyed and painted backgrounds then thickened the dyes to paint, print, stencil and stamp for the 2nd & 3rd layers. This student is cutting out letters from a […]
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