Do you love dyeing fabric? Are you looking for a new way of creating luscious colour that changes across the surface, almost by magic? Curious about screen printing?
Then sign up for my Colour Blocking Online Workshop that begins on August 4th. In this workshop you will learn all the necessary steps to make amazing fabrics that will inspire you to create wonderful art.
In this workshop you will have a 45 minute video lesson (that you can download and watch forever), a printable PDF with all dye recipes and step by step instructions. In addition you'll be able to leave questions and comments on the password protected webpage. There is a private Facebook group to join, if you wish where other students share photos of their work and talk about their Colour Blocking projects.
So what is Colour Blocking? Its a way to use thickened dyes as a base for printing with a silk screen. Thickened
dyes do not change the hand of the fabric, allowing the fabric to remain
soft and supple despite repeated applications, plus thickened dyes are
transparent, so layers of dye will change intensity, value and colours,
giving the artist a wide range of possible uses for their created cloth.
I’ve been using thickened dyes for several years and love to screen
print with them in a technique I call “colour blocking”. By using an
open screen, with no images masked on the screen, I can achieve large
areas of one or several colors that can mix and combine on the fabric.
Students sometimes ask about fabrics....they wonderful part about Colour Blocking is its versatility1 You can use any fabric that works with Fibre Reactive dyes, so think of cotton, linen, hemp and silk. In fact any natural cellulose based fabric is perfect! Can't decide? Then why not layer some fabrics on top of one another! There's so many great effects that you can create with this technique, its not surprising its one of my favourites!
Are you thinking this is for you? After you register for the workshop, then check out my free video on making a print table, you'll need one for the workshop. You can get the video here:
Can't wait to get started? If you are a Quilting Arts magazine subscriber, then my article about Colour Blocking appears in the October/November 2014 issue!
I'd love to have you in my workshop, so sign up now and be one of the first to learn Colour Blocking!
You can get the supply list when you register and be ready!
I'm just finishing a piece that I want to enter into the Quilts=Art=Quilts Exhibition http://www.schweinfurthartcenter.org/, just need to take out some basting and get it photographed. The deadline is July 25th so I've got masses of time, right? I'll post a photo of it once I know if its been accepted.
So here's my dilemma: I want to continue working with the theme that began with the first piece, an abstraction of an abandoned shipyard in North Vancouver. I took several photos years ago that I keep coming back to as design inspiration.
But I can't decide which one I should work with....so you get to vote! I like them all and will probably create a piece from each of them, but I just want to get started!
In no particular order, should it be Photo#1:
Right now my life seems to be lived in 30 minute increments, there's a lot going on in our house and with our family....all of it good, just busy. So I grab what time I can and go with the flow!
I've managed to do some more ice dyed for my Etsy Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/FabricImagery and I think they are gorgeous!
