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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Screen Printing on Silk with Thickened Dyes


I haven't been posting that much to this blog lately mostly because I am using my Brattleboro-Muse blog to do most of my journaling on these days. You can find that blog here: http://brattleboro-muse.blogspot.com/
The post below is a copy of the post I wrote for my Brattleboro-Muse blog today.

Today I spent the day cozy and warm in the studio watching the blizzard outside. Beautiful as long as you dont have to travel in it!


I have been experimenting with screen printing on silk using thickened stem set dyes and I am really enjoying the process. Todays prints remind me of birds nests, which fits in with my contentment at being nice and cozy inside watching the snow pile up outside.

Now I just have to decide if I want to take them further, perhaps using some discharge paste, maybe adding a raven or two or embelishing them in some other way to create works of art out of the or if I should leave them as is and sell them as scarves. I'll see how they speak to me after they are steamed.


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