Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Screen Printing with A.R.T.

More fabric from the A.R.T workshop based on Rayna Gillman’s book, Create Your Own Hand-Printed Cloth.

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The above print is from a screen using masking tape and pieces of torn newspaper. The following prints used the same screen, but I pulled off the newspaper and threw in some paper “dots” from my 3-hole punch:

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On the last print above, I used a couple of the wet newspaper pieces to “stamp” paint onto the fabric.

The following print was screened onto commercial fabric:

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Then, I bleached the fabric to bring up the contrast between the background and the print:

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Nope, don’t like that, so I added some DyNa-Flow paint:

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That’s better, although I wish the DyNa-Flow hadn’t run so much, but that was the chance I took by wetting the fabric.

More fabric to try to figure out how to use!

5 comments:

Dolores said...

There are so many ways to print on fabric. It must be fun trying things out. I love the vibrant colours you have used.

Unknown said...

Your experiments are going well! I am mad for all kinds of surface design. :D

Chris Daly said...

Thanks for the look at your screen printing. I love the colors and the organic patterns. I've been wanting to take a class for a few years and will take a look at the book you recommended.

Anonymous said...

You got great results with this. I think that last piece with the dye-na-flow added to it is really wonderful.

Digitalgran said...

You have just reminded me how much I enjoy screen printing. thanks for the inspiration, great samples.