Really love your work....
When I get a moment I'm going to give your 16-8-Oct a try.
I've just got to see if I can pull it off. Thanks for sharing the
pics.
Jo
Thanks a bunch - I'd love to see what you end up with the stars. I've been meaning to take another stab at it w/ a very different approach with the colors, so it's kinda been sitting in the back of my mind ruminating - it'd be cool to see somebody else's take on it.
This one is a mystery to me. How was it scrumpled up and dyed?
Just happened to have one of these on tap today, so I took pictures as I went. This one is another mixed-method of sorts - it's not really direct application, it's not really LWI...but partially a bit of both.
To start with, scoured shirt/spun dried, and folded in half. then crinkle/wadded and bound tightly w/ sinew. No soda soak.
This is going into a bowl - I'm using a quart sour cream bowl for this one - wind up the shirt with the neck sticking up in the center. It's going to need to go into the bowl you're using, so...just about bowl size is perfect.
The first color can go in the bowl - I used a blue that was mainly turquoise (cobalt/fuchsia sprinkled in to taste) and fairly diluted - somewhere around 1/4 to 1/3rd of a cup of 'regular strength' dye liquid with 1 to 1.5 cups water added to it. Other colors would work, but the important bit about this color/soak is that it's a bleeder. An orange made with lemon yellow can get a similar effect.
Cram the shirt in there, let it wick up for a few minutes. I generally pull the center of the shirt up as I'm wedging it into the bowl so the neckline doesn't end up with any of the soak color on it, but not always.
The rest of the dye is applied 'regular strength' w/ squeeze bottles - the center/neckline got a mix of lemon and deep yellow, then orange around the edges. I used a lemon yellow fuchsia orange, as well as a deep yellow/fuchsia orange on this one. Last, a dark red on the top edge/center fold of the shirt.
Let that sit for 10-15 minutes or so, then pour a cup to a cup and a half of fixer water over it (2 tsp soda ash/1 cup water, give or take-ish)
The soak color in the bottom of the bowl will end up diluted and bleeding into the rest of the shirt as it fixes. I usually let them soak for at least a few hours, but if I'm unable to rinse them immediately, I'll drain the bowl after 5-6 hours or so, then rinse whenever I get around to it.
