This was one of my first attempts at dye printing. A little fore thought would have gone a long way but it was a messy undertaking (the way I did it) and I remember feeling an urgency as if the images I was transferring with the sponge block were evaporating before I could transfer them to the cloth.
I used too much alginate and as a result the colors were so pale that I over painted almost everything with and acrylic wash and then some metallics.
This morning, I cut it up into the elements with the idea that I can rearrange them. For the moment, I did this instead:
This was one of my first attempts at dye printing. A little fore thought would have gone a long way but it was a messy undertaking (the way I did it) and I remember feeling an urgency as if the images I was transferring with the sponge block were evaporating before I could transfer them to the cloth.
I used too much alginate and as a result the colors were so pale that I over painted almost everything with and acrylic wash and then some metallics.
This morning, I cut it up into the elements with the idea that I can rearrange them. For the moment, I did this instead:
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oops! my comment for this post is posted on your previous one.
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