Showing posts with label deconstructive screen prints. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deconstructive screen prints. Show all posts
Friday, July 6, 2012
Leaf prints done and I sold a piece!
I got a call this morning from a local gallery space(actually a candy store that has a wall for art), that my piece "Swoosh" has sold! This afternoon I get to go put up another piece and pickup some money. This is "Swoosh".
This next group of pictures shows the progression on the leaf piece I had started last post.
I added some red leaf veins and a blue-grey to the background. Right now my thoughts are to quilt this as a whole cloth and then add some leaves dimensionally on top. Just an idea,not well planned yet, but then none of this piece was planned. I find I work better without a plan, just respond to whatever I've done in each step.
Daily stitching project #111 thru #115.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
More of splat
The splat piece that I showed in my last post has turned into a piece of fabric to cut up. I had an idea that with some refinement will work on it's own, but I did it over top of what I had already printed and it was not a success. I've included a picture so you can see for yourself.
I did use the screen that I left with dye on it on another piece of fabric and am much happier with it. I started with the blue dye and you can see some of the dried resist spots still left on the screen. I then switched to green dye, then yellow dye and finally red dye, the colors are a bit muddy because I didn't clean the screen between dyes. On the red prints you can see that there are no resist spots left, all the dried dye is gone from the screen. I'm going to continue to play with the splat images and see what else I can come up with.
There was still some thickened dyes leftover so I used them to dry brush onto another piece of fabric,this one I love.
The remainder of my leftover thickened dyes got spread onto a piece of cotton/silk fabric that already had some brush marks on it from fabric paint. It was a piece in my reject bin,now it has some spots that that have promise. I use a viewfinder and move it around the fabric to find the good parts. Those parts will go into some little compositions or fabric postcards.
This week is Fiddle Festival week here in Weiser, so I'm busy doing things that I only do once a year, which will probably get in the way of me accomplishing anything in the studio.
I did use the screen that I left with dye on it on another piece of fabric and am much happier with it. I started with the blue dye and you can see some of the dried resist spots still left on the screen. I then switched to green dye, then yellow dye and finally red dye, the colors are a bit muddy because I didn't clean the screen between dyes. On the red prints you can see that there are no resist spots left, all the dried dye is gone from the screen. I'm going to continue to play with the splat images and see what else I can come up with.
There was still some thickened dyes leftover so I used them to dry brush onto another piece of fabric,this one I love.
The remainder of my leftover thickened dyes got spread onto a piece of cotton/silk fabric that already had some brush marks on it from fabric paint. It was a piece in my reject bin,now it has some spots that that have promise. I use a viewfinder and move it around the fabric to find the good parts. Those parts will go into some little compositions or fabric postcards.
This week is Fiddle Festival week here in Weiser, so I'm busy doing things that I only do once a year, which will probably get in the way of me accomplishing anything in the studio.
Friday, June 15, 2012
Deconstructing splat
When I do deconstructive printing I like to make a mask for my screen so that I don't get a rectangular shape. Since splat is my new favorite I've made a splat shaped mask for my screen. Then the mask is taped to a screen.
You can see it above with the dried dark blue thickened dye that I squiggled onto the screen with a syringe. I then mixed up some thickened golden yellow dye and used it to print with.
On the right is the first print and on the left is one of the last prints. In the first print the blue dye hasn't gotten completely wet yet and is creating a resist. After several prints have been made the blue dye has been breaking down and no longer resisting the yellow dye. The spots that are left are where the dye dripped thru the screen while it was drying, it's thicker and takes longer to disintegrate.
This is one of the prints made about halfway thru the process.
This is how I've left the fabric for today. I added some smaller thermofax prints of splat.
This is how the screen looked when I finished for today, I'm leaving it this way and may use it again when I come back to do more work on the piece.
#89 - #94 of the daily stitching project.
You can see it above with the dried dark blue thickened dye that I squiggled onto the screen with a syringe. I then mixed up some thickened golden yellow dye and used it to print with.
On the right is the first print and on the left is one of the last prints. In the first print the blue dye hasn't gotten completely wet yet and is creating a resist. After several prints have been made the blue dye has been breaking down and no longer resisting the yellow dye. The spots that are left are where the dye dripped thru the screen while it was drying, it's thicker and takes longer to disintegrate.
This is one of the prints made about halfway thru the process.
This is how I've left the fabric for today. I added some smaller thermofax prints of splat.
This is how the screen looked when I finished for today, I'm leaving it this way and may use it again when I come back to do more work on the piece.
#89 - #94 of the daily stitching project.
Friday, June 1, 2012
Deconstructive printing and more
I printed several extra pieces of fabric last summer when I was working on samples of deconstructive screen printing for Shelly Stokes book Rubbing Plate Roundup. One of them never got finished so I pulled it out and went to work. This is how it looked when I got it out.
A close up shows the pattern I was getting by using the rubbing plates to texture the thickened dye on the screen.
This is how it looks today, more prints,a bit of red-orange and some background color.
This is what draws me to this type of printing - the organic looking shapes that happen when the dye breaks down.
Now all I have to do is figure out what to do with it.
I also did some printing on the bright orange fabric that Kathleen gave me when we were screen printing on Mothers day. This was very hard to photograph, I finally had to focus the camera on the white design wall then take the picture, otherwise it would pickup just the light part of the printing not the dark. I'm not sure where this one will go next.
Daily project #78 -#80.
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