Found the Zone
Hello Zone! I’ve missed you! It’s been so very long. I promise not to wander off like that again.
Seriously, I did another printing, screening (whatever you want to call it) last night and they came out so good. I am so jazzed with the results. Yesterday morning I started sampling textures from all around my house. My three year old was trailing behind me the whole time asking “what’s that?” “why are you doing that?” “can I try?”. Anyways, I have started looking at everything in the house as possible design surfaces. It can be a little distracting at times!
Later in the evening I got to the actual printing part of the process. I mixed some fabric medium into the matte medium in hopes to soften up the ‘hand’ of the fabric when it dries. They still came out stiff but no where as much as just straight matte medium. I used an unbleached muslin fabric for printing. I actually washed and ironed the stuff before hand. I never wash my fabrics unless I’m dyeing them. But the stuff was so wrinkled that no iron would save them and I didn’t want any wrinkle lines invading my design. I’m telling you all this because I usually don’t do much prep work to my materials on projects. I just jump in and let things turn out as they may. But this process seems to need a little more control and attention. So I got all my fabric smooth and ready to go, glass of wine poured, MP3 player loaded and ready to go, goo mixed and apron on. Here’s the results:
Here are four of the six prints. I also did some printing on some purple pastel fabric that I was not real crazy about. That came out cool as well and may actually be usable now.
Here they all are drying in the laundry room. Bonus of the furnace being on is that stuff can dry pretty darn quick.
The detail of the lines just makes it really cool. I can’t wait to do more.
Themocracy
They look fantastic!