Module 6 chapter 3

Transform and personalise

This chapter is about looking at ways of colouring materials in unusual ways. My first attempt was to try using foodstuffs from my kitchen on cartidge paper.

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Not a very encouraging start, from the food cupboard, so I branched out into the garden and hedgerows. I also continued with the onion dying and moved on to fabric.

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Working from left to right, silk organza, scrim, cotton string, wool tops, polyester wadding, silk thread, PDF cotton and a feather from the last chapter which has turned from grey to a lovely warm yellow. The BG cloth is a piece of tea dyed cotton. The onion skins and the above materials were all simmered for about an hour.

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Next are some unidentified red berries which gave forth colour very qiuckly but I continued to simmer the contents for an hour as above.

Left to right, silk organza, before and after plain tree bark, PDF cotton, cotton perle, and string.

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Next I tried some plum/cherry leaves with cotton and silk organza, these were much less dramatic than the above berries. The designs at the top of the cotton sample are lino prints using a bleach based cleaner, interestingly it bleached the fabric green.

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I followed up the fabric dying with further experiments, this time using Parker brown ink and Quink blue ink on paper and cotton samples and then printing with lino blocks and a string block, using bleach. Some of the prints on the RHS page are made from printing through the fabric. The BG is a wash of the onion dye, which when printed with bleach turned a deep yellow, middle and bottom right prints, again that was a surprise.

The LHS was washed with the plum/cherry dye and the bleach also tuirned that yellow.

My rust experiment worked well after about 6 days kept moist and warm. The fabric I used was a PDF cotton.

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I also took the opportunity of a bit of sketching parctice.

Further experiments were carried out as follows.

Egg tempera was used for the following exercise, with watercolour inks and Brusho granules. I also printed with a sponge stamp.

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This was followed by experiments to create leather or skin-like patterning with monoprinting.

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The following set of samples were painted and bleached to decorate surfaces on new and old samples.

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And the final set of samples were created using resist techniques of potato starch,wax and shibori.

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The top 2 are Shibori and the bottom one is wax.

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And the potato starch resist

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