Sampling: week three

This week in the print sessions we worked on hand printing onto silk screens using reactive dyes. The technique has a nice quality to it and designs are easily painted onto the screens. I found that to my advantage the prints turn out bold but still with the hand drawn quality.

I liked how when the paste is used to print the design, it takes some of the colour out (due to the paint not being dry) it adds to the design and creates texture. The paint has to be applied onto the screen quite thin in order to let it fully dry before printing. At this point I didn't have a colour palette so stayed with colours i thought worked nice together.

In the second print session we used dip dye to dye fabrics using thin cotton and dye. 

For the rest of the week I carried on generating ideas using data and the hole punch technique. The negative space from where the holes were punched out show a different element to the holes and create more of a 'motif' design. I want to use some of these for my motifs to then take on further and print. 

We started to look at illustrator and learnt how to use it so then we could create digital motifs.