UNIT X- hand painting onto screen with reactive dye

This technique ables us to get a hand painted feel to our work, it's useful for backgrounds to then print onto further.We wanted the print to be a watercolour with the colours bleeding into each other. Painting this on the screen we used a lot of water to get what we wanted. Once dried, manutex is pulled through the screen transferring the pattern onto fabric.

The print can only be used once as the colour fades, we tried printing it again but was very faded.

The print is extremely vibrant at this point. the circles of colour are formed from when the dye drops have dried. I like how the print curves around and bleeds into different sections. We left the white space so we can print over the top.

Once the print is dried, it is set to steam. the colours fade slightly but this links with our warn out theme.