Beyond the Book - Lesson 6

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Beyond the Book: Paint & Print with Dye - Lesson 6: Monoprint with Dye

COURSE | 1 Lesson Learn to make a unique print each time the fabric and dye are in contact with each other. Monoprinting is a world of variety; Ann demonstrates how to manage the viscosity of the dye and how to choose the surfaces that enable you to get very different results. She demonstrates working on a series of silk fabrics that change with each print. Colors: gold, navy, dark green and values.

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Lesson 6 includes the following

A 49 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

Thick dye brushed on shiny vinyl, monoprinted 2 times with different colors.

Third printing with thick dye on white vinyl. Fabric is still wet.

Foam surface with scraped design and background speckles. Dry cotton put over it and more soda solution applied on the back.

Thick black and gray painted on foam surface, dry put fabric on top. Marks are from air bubbles and wrinkles.

White vinyl surface with blue and orange from previous monoprint, scraped again with no more dye added, monoprinted again.

Layers of monoprints, one overall overlaid with smaller monoprints.

Detail of a large monoprint made with thick dye on foam surface scraped on the back of the fabric.

Detail of a 3-yard piece, cotton sateen monoprinted in parts and overpainted with thin dye.

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