Tuesday, 13 May 2014

Moving along......

On Wednesday May 7, six of the Diversity members met to explore printing techniques, in their ongoing "the journey" projects.


Yvonne did some screen printing, while I prepared another print block after finding a further design element I wanted to explore below.



Jill began printing on to fabric with the block she made above, and Jenny prepared to print with her blocks below



Cath printed onto various fabrics with her original design, and also brought along several other smaller blocks she is exploring this technique with



Helen developed a design she liked and made a string block



Jenny encouraged everyone to try their blocks not only with inks and paints, but with discharge paste and thick bleach above, with Cath's discharge paste print below



Cath discussed her print with Helen, explaining she was a little disappointed in the print block


Yvonne says she has now found a design element she is happy to continue with, and made prints with paint and discharge paste above.  Below are more of Cath's stamping the top two rows are potato prints with discharge paste, and below she has made marks with a bleach pen.




Above the discharge paste on two of Jenny's pieces is curing and beginning to appear, and below she printed using metallic acrylic paints



Above and below are more prints from print blocks Cath designed



Above, Cath was pleased with her original design stamped using fabric paint, and below another of Cath's print blocks, both in positive and negative on fabric using acrylic paint.  Very effective on the hand dyed fabric Cath!



Above a further print from Cath and below the result of her discharge and bleach dyeing after washing out the paste and bleach


Everyone agreed this was a good productive day, and  we are all looking forward to the next play session.                Rachel

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