Last week I had the dye pot out doing some eco-dyeing on cotton t-shirts. Great fun! Then the second stage was monoprinting leaves onto the shirts. Below are photos of the printing in progress and the finished shirts.
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| Revealing the monoprint, using dwarf banksia leaves |
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Printing using 'interesting' gum leaves - lots of holes makes for
a print with character! |
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| The finished shirt and gum leaves after printing |
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| The banksia t-shirt finished |
And then I used the same gum leaves to do some monoprints on paper, here are a couple of the resulting prints. I've titled them 'Where I meet the Earth'. The prints reminded me of looking down at decaying leaf litter on a rainforest floor - perhaps one of those memorable occasions when I'm checking my hiking boots for leeches! ;-)
LOVE!
ReplyDeleteI agree! But then I had to clean out my wardrobe to make space for the all new t-shirts I dyed and printed.....!
DeleteWow, love the look of the shirts and prints.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dorothy! It was great fun to experiment and have the dye pot set up for the week, a couple of t-shirts per day, changing the combinations and techniques each time to see what happens.
Deletegreat..I especially love the prints made with the leaves
ReplyDeleteThanks! I LOVE leaves!
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