Workshop Days

When i have free time i have been trying to use the workshops as much as possible to get the most out of them. I have been in the print workshop using all different techniques such as heat transfer, the dye lab and screen printing.

For the heat transfer i wanted to create background and my colour pallet so i spent a lot of time making samples of different colours so i could make sure i got the perfect combination. I then created some galaxy looking of the sky piece with my chosen colour pallet.

I also wanted to dye some fabric samples in the colours of my company so i used the dyspers dyes to dye a synthetic silk. i believe that this turned out really well as the colours were all as bright as i wanted them to be.I also tried a method which we spoke about in the studio where you plait the fabric and knot it before you dye it so when you take it out it leaves beautiful affects on the fabric. i thought that this method look like starts and a night sky.

i creates some stencils to screen print as i had lots of motifs that i wanted to try screenprinting that wouldn’t all fit on one screen. Some of the stencils worked really well and others not so well. I coated up and exposed one screen which went well. I am hopefully going to create lots of different samples and do some devoure with it.