24 January 2012

The Big Reveal and lessons learned

Here is the entire piece batched, washed and ironed


 Some of these are close-up and some are pictures of two prints. I only made four prints of each screen. Sometimes you can make more but I'd rather have mine rich in color than numerous.








This is a closeup of the drips. The thick drips of dried dye act as a resist but as they break down (deconstruct) they leave a halo or outline of their color. Can you see the navy outlines along the sides of these drips?

On the block below you can see a double image or ghost image. This happened ( many times) because I lifted he screen after the first pull, thought the image too weak so I lowered the screen back into place but it was just enough off to give the double image or ghost look.

      On the screens above, you can see the navy color around the drops or circles on both screens
These last two were just fill-ins. I had run out of dye on the screens and just filled in the space with color. If I hadn't, I would have large blocks of white. This way I used some of the left over dye, covered the white and have something I can add more layers to with stamps, more dyeing or fabric paints.
This was a very sad pale square although the drips and dots are kind of cute. A good first layer. The objects on the left are color catchers which grab loose dye molecules in the washing machine to prevent dye back or dye re-depositing on the fabric

Here are some fabulous deconstructed screen prints with those sad white blank spots. See the difference when you fill them in? Also with all the white filled in, 4 prints can read as one long piece of fabric.
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In addition to filling the white spots or areas of resist with dye I also have been very diligent to at least butt and sometimes overlaps screens slightly so that multiple prints read as one piece of fabric like the results from today.
I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial as much as I did creating it. If you have any questions or need a clearer more precise description, please leave a comment. You can also email me at the email address in my profile.
Cheers.

6 comments:

  1. I love your results! I've played with this technique and really enjoyed it.

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  2. Thanks Vicki. I find deconstruction endlessly energizing.

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  3. They all look so yummy, I can't wait to get started myself.

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  4. Absolutely gorgeous! Thanks for the great tutorial.

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  5. Ooooh, what a beatifull organic result. This is worth all the work (and it is quite a lot of work). How smart to take a small screen and post them next to eachother so that you create a sort of flow in colour intensity. Thank you for sharing, will defenitely try to do this, this summer.

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