Change of plan

Another productive day thanks to Sally.
Sadly no photos at the moment of any 'mish mashes'.

Next month (July) there is a change of plan.
We are going to tackle 'photos'.
Taking photos of work, making the most of your photos and
manipulating them using image editing facilities on your laptop or PC.
It will be an opportunity to share and learn good practice.

Coming up

Good to see you all today.

Coming up in the next few months:

June            - Abstract design using mixed fabrics with architecture as the inspiration.
July             - 'Flower power'.
August        - Own work,  FOQ de-brief, plan for The BTS.
September  - Naïve stitch.
October      - 'Cut and stretch'.
Wednesday 21st October - Gillian Travis workshop.
November  - Follow up to Gillian Travis workshop.

Lots to look forward to.......................

Cloth for Art pt. 2

Here are the photos from Monday's excellent collaborating to produce  five Art Cloths.

We started with  five hand dyed lengths of fabric, three of which are below.

We then worked in pairs  taking twenty minutes to add marks to one of the cloths.

At this point we all moved on the the next cloth for a further twenty minutes.

Round three meant that we moved on again to the next cloth.

A final round :

We then returned to the cloths we started with and which we would take a section of away to work on to add anything else we wanted or just contemplate "what next..."

Cloth for Art

If you want to make your own screens you need 43T mesh.

A good supplier is Hunt the Moon - scroll down and click on the image,

where you see 'mesh count' click and scroll down to find 43T, click to 

select to view price.

Reminder:

May - using the Cloth for Art produced today.

June - Abstract design using mixed fabrics.

 

Screen printing

Wow, what a day.

Some fantastic screen printing.

No team leader today but lots of learning from each other.

Learning about different print mediums and techniques.

It's so interesting watching people work and

seeing their fabric develop.

I can't wait to see what happens to these fabrics.

Screen printing in March

Our next session is 'Screen printing' - a favourite and another
messy session.

Requirements:

Screens - with resists, including thermofax

              - without resists and preferred resist making materials
Squeegees
Preferred print mediums - thickened dyes, acrylics, fabric medium
Fabric - treated appropriately if necessary, dyed
Materials/equipment for keeping your workspace clean, eg plastic sheet or newspaper to put your work on to dry and doing a final clean up.
Hairdryer - if you want to hurry any drying
Think about getting wet work and equipment home.

Looking forward to having fun..........................

Paste Grain Papers - the results!

Thanks to Sally for a brilliant day and for providing the raw materials for our day. It was a chance to play with a new technique and see its potential. 

Materials assenbled. Rice flour paste, potato starch paste and gram flour paste available for us to try.

Acrylic paint is mixed into a pit of paste.

A fabulous space for us all to work in. Below are examples of work in progress.

Now we have to consider how we make best use of these lovely papers.