This is the classroom and several of the students. We spent the first 30 minutes of the class protecting the room from the paints: Garbage bags on all the tables and chairs, drop cloths on the floor, and aprons on the participants.
This is my wall of painted fabrics. Can you see that I like vivid colors?
Sun Printing - The fabric is out in the sun with the leaves on the it. For this technique we painted the fabric, then layered it with leaves and took it outside to dry.
The results of the Sun Printing. This is not one of my favorite pieces. The color is too pale and I did not press the leaves tight enough to the fabric. As a result you do not see the shadows very well.
The Scrunched fabric drying in the sun. For this technique we painted the fabric, then scrunched it up and took it outside to dry.
The results of the Scrunch. This is a very dramatic piece and one of my favorites. The fabric here is flat but the paint gives it a lot of texture. The top edges dry quickly and the paint pigments stay, hence the look of folds in the fabric.
This is another one of my favorite pieces - not so much due to what I did but the way the white on white fabric took the paint.
This piece resuted from a scrunch that dried slowly so the folds are a little more subtle.
This piece resulted from a rope wrapped with fabric, then tied into a double knot, then paint squirted into the knot. Not exactly tie dyed but close. I like this look a lot.
The results of some of the other techniques were not as visible so I decided not to share the detail photos: We tried some salt on the wet paint. I am not sure my piece was wet enough, but for whatever reason, the salt did not collect the paint. We tried wax paper, bubble wrap and saran wrap on top of the paint to create texture. These results were also too subtle for me. A couple of other pieces resulted from using cloth to clean the paint from various surfaces.
2 comments:
Isn't painting fun? What kind of paint did you use? You got some great results. I'm looking forward to doing some more painting myself, plus using some of the fabrics I painted last summer.
We used Dye-na-Flow by Jacquard. We only used 3 colors Magenta, Turquoise, and yellow. From thee you can make all the others.
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