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Archive for July 1st, 2007

Discharge Workshop Day Two

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

I have sooooo many cool pieces of fabric to play with. There shall be no excuses for shunning the studio. I should give credit to our great workshop teacher, Jeannette DiNicolis Meyer. She is on the faculty of OSAC.

These were waiting for me when I arrived this morning, after being washed and dried. The first two were done with the torn masking tape applied to the silkscreen.

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This was the piece that had skinny tape applied to the fabric. I love this.

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Today we mixed turquoise dye with the discharge paste. It does not discharge so you can add color to discharged areas. Here I am applying the turquoise discharge paste, using a construction fence as the resist.

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This is the piece after steaming, washing and drying.

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I made another masking tape silk screen:

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Here is the piece of fabric with discharge paste screened on the surface. This fabric is much browner than it shows here. The final piece is gorgeous. I’ll post a pic tomorrow. Jeannette proclaimed it the best piece of the workshop!!

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This piece had large areas of smooshed discharge paste done yesterday and was looking rather washed out. Today, I used the turquoise paste to add back some color and design elements using a syringe and a screen.

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Here is another skinny tape piece (raw silk) using the turquoise paste and one that was stamped with hydrangea leaves.

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This is a piece that I painted with acid dyes a while ago. I used a foam roller with cut outs and rolled the paste across the fabric creating discharged stripes.

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The rest of the work done today has not been photographed. I had to bring it home to wash. So there will be more tomorrow.