Experimenting with new techniques.

I really wanted to push myself this year to develop my skills and learn new things, I wanted to experiment with fabric dying. Within my own practice a lot of my illustrations involve a lot of block colours. To start with I began buying dyed fabrics and then I went onto dying them myself. I knew I wanted to work with natural materials throughout my work so experimented with different weights of wool. I began involving them throughout my samples.

Another technique I used in which I hadn’t before was to get into screen printing, I have done a lot of digital printing before and I began using it within this project as well. The problem was the digital printing in University is very limited with the fabric in which you can print onto, I chose to print onto cotton but to then try and work the cotton into the heavy wools I found very difficult. Eventually I decided against as I felt it didn’t flow properly. I found screen printing very easy and it was a quick way to get work done. I eventually moved away from both techniques as I wasn’t getting the desired look that I wanted.