Friday, February 16, 2007

Flour Resist #1

With this one, I used the same tape-to-firm-surface technique but changed to a flour paste resist. I dunked a paint brush in the resist and randomly applied the resist.

Two different thickened dyes were applied after the flour paste resist had dried: green followed by turquoise. This resist doesn't crack but has to be applied thickly in order to keep the original pale green colour of the fabric.

Where the flour paste resist was thinner, the blue dye managed to get through to the fibres. Maybe the blue dye wasn't as thick as the green dye.

1 comment:

Lisa Walton said...

looking good maggie