Gallery of Finished Fabrics
Scarlet and a green made from 50/50 golden yellow and turquoise. Printed quickly with dirty transitions.
Slightly darker colours, again printed quickly with dirty transitions between colours.
Open screen with curved edge well, darker colours, printed more slowly to allow the dye on top of the paper masks to dry slightly.
Extra masking tape added to the well to change the shape of the printable area. Partial prints using three values of grey.
Lines added in three steps changing the position of the masking tape mask each time to increase the amount of lines towards the bottom of the fabric.
Breaking all the rules. No well, not pulling from edge to edge, adding colour to the screen as random.
Stencil taped to back face of screen.
Printed with medium value rust brown using kitchen towel to prevent ghosting. Plastic card and golden yellow dye used to eliminate white space.
1st layer created using loose torn paper in light value colours leaving plenty of white space. 2nd layer printed using an embedded object breakdown screen.
Loose string resist combined with open screen with a torn edge well. White space eliminated using an open screen.
Created a sticky back plastic resist that mirrored the shapes of the string in the first layer.
Used an open screen with a straight edge well. Pieces of net arranged to create an interesting design. Printed in light and medium value greys.
Sticky back plastic resist with circular opening. Pulled first print on scrap to ensure the loose net was stuck to the screen. Used a medium value grey.
Used a screen without a well, soft pleating the fabric, printing, rearranging, printing. Over and over with dirty transitions and lots of ghosting.
Grid drawn using royal blue and dark brown lines, distressed whilst wet using the end of a paint brush. Dried then printed using print paste.
1st screen made using thickened dye then pulled with print paste. 2nd layer made with print paste and pulled with thickened dye.
Printed using two values of magenta in the screen. White space eliminated by printing with an open screen and two values of golden yellow.
Lines of thickened dye drawn across three circular apertures in a freezer paper resist. Dried, freezer paper removed, curved edge well added and printed with medium and light value golden yellow.
Lines of thickened dye drawn across the open circle in a sticky back plastic resist. Dried. Sticky back plastic removed, washed, dried and reapplied to the screen to form a solid resist around the breakdown prints. Pulled with print paste.
Printed on top of a piece of breakdown printed fabric.
Thickened dye painted on top of a sticky back plastis resist. Once dry the resist was removed, washed dried and then put back on the screen which was printed using print paste.
PVA glue drawn on screen using needle nosed bottle with the screen lifted so that the PVA flowed down the screen before drying. First layer printed using medium and light magenta. Second layer, turned screen and pulled using golden yellow.
A drawn grid that had been distressed using end of paint brush before drying. Printed quickly with dirty colour transitions between turquoise and grey.
Printed using medium value turquoise with light green added afterwards to eliminate the white space.
Printed using full strength turquoise. More light green was scrapped across the fabric using a plastic card to shift the background from a blue green to a less blue green.
Printed using magenta initially. Screen turned and second layer pulled using golden yellow.
String pattern stretched across the fabric, secured by pins. Printed using an open screen and turquoise and grey dyes. Printed quickly so lots of ghosting and mark off.
Circles on print paste printed onto fabric. An open screen was used to add colour immediately on top of the wet prints.