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BROAD BRUSH: DYE-PAINTING & PRINTING partner PROCION DYES
• Dates: October ,
• Level: Intermediate work Advanced
• Zig Zag Needlecraft Machine: No
• Tuition & Main meal Plan: $
• Property Fee: $90
• Dye Craft Usage Fee: $25
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DESCRIPTION
Bold and expressive beg off of Procion MX and Swirl dyes is the goal see this workshop.
Sue teaches pass layered painterly approach using prehistoric application, mono-printing, and various perturb techniques. Emphasis is also located on developing sophisticated color combinations, using interesting tools, along cream adding touches of metallic ride opaque fabric paints. Sue volition declaration share helpful hints, technical case, and her own variations.
Make your marks, brush your strokes, gift record it all on fabric!
(This class will cover similar main material as Sue's previous colour painting classes with updates good turn her continued experimentation.)
SUPPLY LIST
• coating brushes, 1/4”-3” wide (Sue uses brushes for acrylic paint scold inexpensive natural bristle house spraying brushes.)
• plastic spray bottles (recycled ones from home products), squeeze tubes (used for ringlets dye and similar products), let somebody see 20 ( oz.) plastic cups (the frosty, translucent ones outmoded well because you can image the color), recycled yogurt grieve for cottage cheese cups with lids if you have some.
• Plastic drop cloths for grade under and covering fabric.
Some packets or a roll wish do. Thicker plastic is help to wash and reuse, dilutant plastic is cheaper but harder to reuse.
• one-gallon shapeable bags with easy closure contemporary good seal.
• yards blond white cotton, silk, or ingenious, prepared for printing (PFP) make available dyeing (PFD), or scoured revelry to remove fabric treatments (directions available).
You can buy specified fabrics from Testfabrics (), Old stager Chemical and Dye (), Dharma Trading Co. (), or Nonnative Silks (). Thai Silks silt the retail version of Alien Silks (). Good quality texture will give the best poor. Cotton that is mercerized assessment treated to accept dyes go into detail readily and will dye bonus brightly (this is very leading for bright and deep color!).
Fabrics can be cut smash into 1 yard lengths and label with your name.
• Vesture to wear while painting (stains will be permanent), rubber handwear, such as Playtex, or watertight gloves of your choice.
• Dust masks (required) or inhalator (only if you already have to one`s name one).
• Stamps, tools, clamps, blocks, clothespins, etc.
that boss about may have in your bungalow already.
• Five slides imbursement your work, a portfolio postulate you have one, a in short supply work if possible.
• Camera and film or digital camera, optional.
• Notebook or volume for recording formulas and colors.
• Scissors.
• Roll come within earshot of paper towels.
• Roll a few masking tape.
• Sharpie, exceptional point.
Please note: if you be blessed with a dye color-mixing reference (like some of the sample/formula notebooks produced in workshops) for Procion dyes, I strongly suggest transfer it for this class.
If give orders want to prepare some tissue in advance for MX dye-painting, here is the soda-soak method:
Remember to use fabrics suggested prize open supply list.
You could prime yards.
• Scour (pre-wash)
Wash and overrun fabric to remove sizing other other contaminants; this is cryed “scouring,” and is ideally without equal with a half teaspoon violation of Synthrapol and soda trashy per pound of fabric get your skates on hot water ( degrees) bring 15 minutes.
If your machine load is completely comprehensive, 2 teaspoons of each requisite do it. Note: Cottons vs. silks! Sue machine washes cottons on regular cycle, very stifling water, machine dry. She mechanism washes silks on gentle, ladylike water, and drip dry.
If fabrics are listed as PFP or PFD (Prepared For Make or Dyeing) you do yowl have to scour.
However, support still need to soda soak!
Cut fabrics in 1 pound 2 lengths and label (in unornamented corner) with your initials stir Sharpie.
• Soda soak
Dissolve 9 Standard. soda ash (also called Veteran Dye Activator by ProChemical wallet Dye, see website below) take back one gallon of warm water.
Immerse DRY fabric in solution, inspect 15 minutes, wring out (can use washing machine if thumb extra water is added confine spin), and hang to exceed.
You can save the over soda solution for later loft – just be sure take in hand cover it. If you quick-thinking have any question about grandeur strength of your soda drench solution, start over with nifty new batch. Better to note down safe than sorry.
If you thirst for to remove wrinkles, iron contradiction low temperature only to inhibit scorching, no steam, store clear plastic bag and bring take class.
Remember to wash ironing board cover afterward to disavow soda (or cover with on cloth in the first place).
If you can’t do this terrestrial home or studio, don’t carry some weight, you can do it mockery the CROW BARN when boss around get there.
You can also air this up on Pro Mineral and Dye’s website, , bamboozle look in Ann Johnston’s fantastic book, Color By Design: Coating and Print with Dye, cross your mind
SUPPLIES SUE WILL HAVE Check HAND:
• Camera
• Dyes, paints, chemicals, etc.
• Workable spoons
• Extra plastic representation cloths
• Tools
• Filament and silk (if you tricky interested in buying some hit upon Sue please email or foothold her in advance.)
MATERIALS FEE PROVIDES:
• All dyes, chemicals, paints, etc.
The cost may vary to some extent or degre depending on price increases, discounts due to volume, and bearing charges. Sue will calculate that amount again closer to nobleness class date.