It plays well with others and allows me to continue to explore my passion for building layers and textures. These are posted in sequential order. This bottom one is still on the table batching. This is a cropped image of the center. It is a 60" square. I just love how versatile this color is in combination with a full range of other colors. Here's to #Millennial Pink .
notes from 207
Random notes about working with dyes and silks in the studio.
Friday, March 16, 2018
Millenial Pink / NPR
NPR is my default listening especially while driving so I was intrigued when the question on Ask Me Another was "when will Millennial Pink" go away. The answer was no time soon. It seems it has taken fashion by storm and looks good on most people. When I got home I googled it and thought it looked a lot like "Ballet Slipper Pink" which Pantone had pushed for spring of 2017. Well which ever, it is a color that I have been using in lots of my more recent scarves and I am loving it.
Sunday, July 2, 2017
Complements to the Rescure
As I left it 7/1 |
I decided to roll a blue green along the boarder and while I was at it I added diagonals to visually connect from one side to the other. All a little scary as I had liked what was there.
deciding to just save a small strip of the blue and red. The new dyes are sill very wet. |
It is helpful that I have worked enough with the dyes to realize how much lighter they will dry. But that still remains a bit of a guess.
leaving it to batch |
Saturday, July 1, 2017
Connecting the Dots
hand painted with screen filler |
printed in repeat |
adding hand painted border with the same red |
New screen done with drawing fluid and then screen filler. I printed it with a deep blue violet and left the space at the end of each screen empty. |
I have printed this screen the length of the fabric and left the space between the image and the frame blank, as the image does not make an aligned repeat. Instead I am just filling in the missing pieces by hand and creating my own "faux repeat". The image on the left shows the blank space the large central loop on the bottom was hand painted. You can see on the left that I have just added more shapes. This solves the problem or repeat for me and allows me to just make it up as I go along. If you look to the image on the right you'll notice that I have added additional loops in the empty space.
It is a one of a kind piece so why not improvise as you go along?
batching before washing out. |
Friday, February 26, 2016
Viscosity Dyeing
My husband is a printmaker and has taught me a smidgen about viscosity printing. It involves using different viscosities of oil based ink in a monoprint or itaglio process in which the thickest inks act almost as a resist to the thinner inks. This may be completely wrong, but it is my blog and my memory so I am going with it.
The ochre shapes were screened first this is a close up of the center of the image below |
54" square of tight twisted seersucker silk |
Monday, November 23, 2015
Michael Olszewski
my work with Michael at Haystack |
Now I am excited to see his work that is part of a textile masters show until Nov. 24th at the Snyderman -Works gallery. It is a beautiful show.
Michael's craftsmanship is flawless but never the point of the works. All the works are evocative and satisfying. His paintings/drawings/collages are made using the visual qualities of the fabrics. Marks are created by stitching, crocheting, knitting. The works are so elegant, but again that is not the point.
Michael Olszewski, The Disturbance, Wool felt, silk, linen, metal, hand stitching, appliqué and paint, 29.625" x 29.125" (framed), 2014 |
Michael Olszewski, August, Silk, wool, hand-stitched and appliquéd, 23.5" x 20.25" (framed), 2015 |
Michael Olszewski, An Attempt, Silk, linen, hand stitching and appliqué, 23.25" x 20.25" (framed), 2013 |
Michael Olszewski, Lisbrin, Silk, wool, metal, hand-stitched and appliquéd, 29.625" x 29.125" (framed), 2015 |
Michael Olszewski, A Reminder, Silk, wool, leather, cotton, hand-stitched and appliquéd, 23.5" x 20.25" (framed), 2015 |
Michael Olszewski, The Return, 12"x 10", Fiber construction in crochet, applique and stitching, cotton, silk, linen, leather and metal, 2008 |
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Second dye bath on cotton gauze
I realized I have no images of all the pieces soaking in their second dye bath. I repositioned all the clamped resists and soaked all the pieces in a deep violet mixture of mx. I will take you through the opening of the gauze piece. Please forgive the blurry images. I was excited. This gauze took up much more blue... so it has only violet where it bled under the clamps. Perhaps it was because the silk grabbed the boysenberry in the dye mix before this cotton gauze got a chance.
So much to learn... each element creates it own pattern all of it controlled by the fold. And of course each fabric a different feel and look.
clamped gauze |
a few clamps removed revealing the blue green beneath the clamps |
Wet and open in one direction |
Fully open |
Opening the packages Hemp fold
Many of these shots are blurry. They were meant to help me remember what I did. But there is still much to be learned from them. I tried to take a shot of each step. This first piece goes from shifting the clamps and resist piece in preparation for the second dye bath... thru to finish.
I love how the purples separate and seep into the whites. The silk once again grabbed more of the warmer colors. It took up more yellow in the first dye bath and more boysenberry in this one. I am guessing that those colors were smaller or faster moving and the blues took their time. Look at the post on the cotton gauze to see how very different the purples are.
rinsed but still clamped from first dye bath |
Surprise... that dark piece of plastic must have had dye on it Oops. Reclamping for second dye bath |
Opening after dyeing in deep mixed MX violet. |
Fully open |
I love how the purples separate and seep into the whites. The silk once again grabbed more of the warmer colors. It took up more yellow in the first dye bath and more boysenberry in this one. I am guessing that those colors were smaller or faster moving and the blues took their time. Look at the post on the cotton gauze to see how very different the purples are.
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