Design and Dye - Week 2 of timelapsing my art

I got a lot of encouragement from a couple of fantastic people who said they really enjoyed watching my timelapse last week. So, on Saturday, after I'd decided I wouldn't be doing any more timelapses in the studio and headed out to the garage to do some spray-bottle dying, when I came back downstairs and started hanging fabric on the wall, I just couldn't stop myself. Can we say narcissistic? Anyway, most of this week was spent in the printing room, where I experimented with rolling thickened dye on, printing it on wet fabric, and using salt to attempt to get the fabrics for this piece. It's been touch and go as my frustration at trying to get a blue gray surmounted to a new decision that the sky is just not going to have gray. I really loved the texture I got from rolling the dye on, but didn't want to just do that. And the printed texture of leaves and trees are quite lovely once the actual images turn into texture rather than the specific images they started out as. Finally, I managed to control the dye/salt mixture to start getting some really interesting results.



And, I am trying out a new way of rinsing the dyes, which I found on Vicki Welsh's blog.

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