Gelatine Plate Printing with Natural Dyes
This is from several years ago, I have a geliplate my best friend Brenda got me for xmas last year that I really, really need to use! I'm thinking some earth pigments and my Black Birds in Tree stencil onto fabric for starters. The plate in the above photo I made myself, here I'm using lace and trims as resists for the print which I made onto fabric.
Cotton fabric, that I do believe I compost dyed, osage orange on the gelatin plate with some lace trims gave a nice resist pattern. After curing and washing the osage orange color is about 30% of it's orignal brightness on cotton fabric. Now to find this piece of fabric in my stash and audition some threads for stitching.
The Studio Waits!
I have mono at the present, so my studio sits idle waiting, waiting for me to come paint, dye, and stitch! All simply because I'm just too tired to do anything, but the diagnosis sure does explain a lot.
John moved the plastic drawer units into my studio two weeks ago, it's so nice to have all of my vintage yummies within arms distance now.
Vintage pink trim, there's a few things left in the office that need to be moved into the studio otherwise it's all in there now and it's a matter of just getting busy producing some new work.
I love black and white zippers, somewhere in one of those plastic drawers there's a black and white houndstooth zipper that's just wanting to be stitched onto a beautiful surface!
Pepper being Silly
Sample
Natural Dyed Fabrics
Screen printed natural dye extracts onto cutch dyed silk dupioni.
Screen printed osage orange onto cochineal and lac dyed silk crepe de chine fabric.
I've been looking for a piece of natural dyed, compost dyed, mono and screen printed silk fabric I surfaced back around 2006, I'm finding everything but that particular piece of fabric!!!
Screen printed osage orange onto cochineal and lac dyed silk crepe de chine fabric.
I've been looking for a piece of natural dyed, compost dyed, mono and screen printed silk fabric I surfaced back around 2006, I'm finding everything but that particular piece of fabric!!!
Foam Tray Mono Prints
Roadside Wonders WIP
I've been working on this piece for several years now, last year it sat hiding in my closet due to my being pre-occupied with flooding etc. It's time to fetch some green plants from the ditches and do more monoprinting with the plants. The central block no longer works for me and I
plan to do something else now.