Color By Accident: Exploring Low-Water Immersion

Color By Accident: Exploring Low-Water Immersion - Part 1

ON SALE FROM $36 COURSE | Part 1 These lessons start with a thorough discussion of low-water immersion dyeing and delve deeply into various ways to mix colors, creating color gradations on separate pieces, blends across flat or folded fabric, or within one container in a “parfait.” It includes detailed demonstrations of each concept and offers samples that show some of the possible variations for each.

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Part 1 includes the following

It corresponds to Disc 1 of the DVD

7 videos:
Artist Portrait (3 min)
Introduction by Ann (4 min)
Low-water Immersion Essentials (21 min)
Color Mixing Introduction (24 min)
Mix Colors on the Fabric (12 min)
Color Blends Across the Fabric (24 min)
Color Parfait (28 min)
Handouts:
CBA-Part 1-2-Notes-Recipes-Projects pdf (22 pages)
Downloadable PDF of the Gallery and captions (1 page)

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

Gallery

Basic method, folded in narrow tray. No stir. Bright yellow separates out of the mix.

Basic method, same colors as above, stirred continuously.

Dyes separate if they are allowed to flow. Sample of drops on dry soda-soaked cotton.

Basic method, minimal stirring, colors flow into folds.

Basic method in tray with different colors on each end. Slightly stirred and turned over.

Soda first, flat on table with colors poured over and mixed with gloves.

Soda first, very wet, two colors poured on. Dye flows around air bubbles.

Color parfait, 1 yd pieces, finished and put back in container without liquid to illustrate order of colors.

Detail of a lower piece of a similar color parfait.