Beyond the Book - Lesson 4

Beyond the Book: Paint & Print with Dye - Lesson 4: Stamps and Blocks

COURSE | 1 Lesson Ann emphasizes printing with blocks and stamps of your design to develop your own style. She discusses how to choose materials, some that can be heat molded, others that can be scored to make very fine lines, adjusting the viscosity of the colors as needed by the materials. You see how to create complexity by overlapping and varying scale and direction of prints. Colors: rusts and aquas.

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Lesson 4 includes the following

A 57 minute video
Handout: Recipes-Steps-Materials (4 pages)
Handout: Washing Hand-Dyed Fabric (2 pages)
The Lesson Overview (3 pages) with
- Suggestions for colors mixed
- Techniques and types of fabric in each demo
- Review of the concepts
- Dye studio tips
- Practice activities related to the lesson
Downloadable PDF of the gallery and captions

Take a look at the gallery below to get an idea of some of the elements in the lesson.

Gallery

Dyes are transparent but results vary depending on order applied. Compare upper left with lower right.

Thick colors applied with a roller onto foam stamp made by scoring with a pen. Background LWI.

Foam sheet scored with a pen, 2 colors in paint tray rolled on at the same time and printed on dry cotton.

Foam sheet with thick dye rolled on, then some scraped away and printed on dry cotton.

Bold foam block design printed over 2 layers of prints: black grid and tiny green wavy lines on dry cotton.

Thick colors pressed between smooth Plexiglas pieces then printed on dry cotton.

Thick colors and clear print paste pressed between smooth Plexiglas pieces, printed on dry cotton.

Thick colors remaining on Plexiglas, with new color added in a circle, then printed dry cotton.

Prewashing in the sink to avoid strong colors staining the white areas, gradually moving to 140F.

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