we only started this project two days ago and already we're choosing the colour scheme for our work! its gone really fast i feel like i've learnt so much in three days its unbelievable, if this whole year is this quickly paced then by summer i am going to be absolutely knackered!
first thing this morning we had a print induction. at first it was so confusing! there were screws an this metal thing that is shaped like a T, and stoppers and all sorts just to set up our printing and i was just thinking like OMG this is not what i expected. its kinda crazy cos art is like so free and like your able to do what ever you want sort of thing but then there is this whole other side to textiles where its really technical and involves so much maths and like a screw driver or whatever. but i will write about how to set that up when we do it in our group and i understand it more!
after that my super organised group booked the dye kitchen so we could sort out what colours we wanted to use on our work. we have to choose three colours: one dyed colour for the background, and then two colours which we will print on top. i was kinda wary like i didn't wanna go too crazy and choose really outlandish colours, but then my group actually were kind of on the same wave length as me. we all decided that we wanted a really pale colour for the background and then the two other colours would be stronger and quite complimentary. i really liked this picture that our tutor had showed us which was in like china or somewhere and there was a orange sky with like this building in front of it, but then there was a lake where there were lots of blues and some bright green, almost lime green, lilies. i liked that as an idea but we tested a few colours out on swatches of fabric (i forgot to take fabric so i don't have any actual samples but hey ho). first when we got there we used these dyes, i think we were testing dyrect dyes and then after about an hour we found out they were the wrong ones. we were like wahhhhhhh but we had more of an idea what colours we liked. we were looking at like a mustard yellow or a peachy colour for the background and then like a pinky mauve colour and a turquoise for the two colours to be printed on top, although we tested a few others as well. this was like the first time i had actually mixed up dyes and printing pastes so it was a bit tricky but easy to get the hang of measuring everything out, it had to be so precise which for me wasn't easy [preciseness i don't like]. but anyways after we were using the right dyes we were sure we wanted a peach for the background and a raspberry and a turquoise for the printing, but then we couldn't decide how strong the peach should be! i liked it a little stronger because i just felt like the weakest one looked a bit drab and like dead like hfffff, where as if we used a bit more then it was a lot brighter and felt alive. we have decided to just try going for in the middle. it was then suggested to us by fran, the printing technician that we try doing some discharge dyes, ay ay ay. it was a really good idea and then we couldn't decide all over again. we have been talking about maybe doing two so one we dye raspberry and then discharge areas and then print raspberry over the top so some of it you ll see and some you won't, as well as doing our peach/raspberry/turquoise one.
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