Nomad - Printing Weeks - Eight - Ten

For the printing weeks I have decide to amalgamate all the posts into one to avoid a whole lot of repetition.

I made up my pigments using pigment binder and coloured dyes. I made up a purple colour and a greeny blue colour.

I started out with just single layer printing with just my images on the screen being placed in differing ways on the fabric.

I figured that after the first week I could then put another layer on top as I would need to wait until these were dry to print on top.

I then started experimenting with using two colours. When putting the pigment on the screen you have to drag it through the screen using a squeegee so I put different coloured pigments at different points along where I was dragging the squeegee to create a blended gradient between the colours or even a straight line through the image where the colour changed from one to the other. 

Once I had done this I took a step back and looked at my prints as a collection and something wasn’t working with it. I asked my lecturer and she suggested that I should introduce the yellow and blue colours that I used with the heat transfer paints. 

Bobbi Jean Shields
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