I decided to stick with one motif for the whole session and chose to work with a pear.
Then this was used for various techniques. Firstly I drew and cut out a pear shape in paper and screened with the stencil or with the cut out pear or a combination. We tried layering in different ways. Drew directly on the screen with charcoal and then screened that. Finally I stencilled the motif several times on the bottom of a cotton drill apron.
These are all now heat set and waiting for stitching to be added.... I will blog about those later.
meantime here is a selection of the work from everyone while it was drying on the line outside.
Above is my pear apron
Here are two pulls of my charcoal image and a third which is very feint but I have overprinted it.
sounds like a fun day and some lovely work produced, Frances x
ReplyDeleteThanks Frances. I really enjoyed the day.
ReplyDeleteDorothy, those are really fun and I love the pear idea. I love printing, though mine is usually done on paper, and these are going to give you a lot of directions to go one further...
ReplyDeleteHi Jordi, Thank you, it was a most enjoyable workshop and good to hear an expert's opinion! :-)
DeleteI am going to take them with me to Grasmere to work on some more. I want to do some on paper too, but that will have to wait a little while as I am working on my house book at the moment.
You surely are having a good time there Dorothy. By the way, when will be the next screen printing workshop? It looks interesting and fun that is why I am decided to join.
ReplyDeleteI love your idea of printing owned pear design in your apron. I'm sure you are proud of all your design.
ReplyDeleteI love these prints and lovely to find your blog through Dionne's workshop.
ReplyDeleteThank you Maura. I really enjoy screen printing and she was a great tutor.
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