Mon 3rd Feb Tutorial and Print room

Tutorial

The overlapping effect in my print room samples works well; I should try this more deliberately with stripes or large plain shapes in the background and layer the colour on top, 2, 3 or more times. The pigments aren't showing well on darker fabrics and are coming out dull; I can modify my photoshop colours to reflect this.

My Tigerprint competition entries started to show how my colours work together and the stripes contributed to a 3D effect that was interesting. I could make stripes out of my motifs to use as backgrounds for my locations photoshop designs.

For all photoshop samples that I print out on paper I should include material samples of the fabric the designs would be printed on.

For the origami book that will hold images of my designs (a mini catalogue) it should be small enough to remain an object but large enough to show detail; I need to prototype this to find the optimal size.

Print Room

The jersey cotton didn't dye well previously, because it was bathed in too small a jug. I re-dyed it beige, this time in a 5 litre jug. The effect was more even and produced a deeper shade. This should provide a good base for pigment printing.

Taken on 5th Feb, after devoré paste was applied and baked

I also applied devoré paste to my dyed yellow silk/viscose through my screen motifs. The first time I followed the instructions given to us in the workshop, that thin fabric only needs 2 screen pulls to absorb the paste. Replicating this had no effect at all on my fabric. Alice suggested using 10 pulls, as this had worked well on her previous samples. I tried it and the results were much better. Baking with a hot iron took a while, and removing the burned fibres from my 2 samples took about an hour; this fabric has very little pile so it's difficult to separate them out.