Color By Accident: Exploring Low-Water Immersion

Color By Accident: Exploring Low-Water Immersion - Part 2

ON SALE FROM $36 COURSE | Part 2 Extend your skills by making value gradations in separate containers, stacked together as a “parfait” or across a piece of fabric, wrinkled or smooth. Learn resist techniques which use folding, clamping and twisting. Ann explains the use of Procion MX dyes on silk, explaining why the results can be unexpected. The final review helps you go forward on your own.

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Part 2 includes the following

It corresponds to Disc 1 of the DVD

8 videos:
Dyeing Values Overview (22 min)
Value Parfait (13 min)
One-Piece Value Blends (34 min)
Fabric Manipulation (11 min)
Clamps with Shapes (13 min)
Other Resist Techniques (21 min)
Working with Silk (30 min)
Enjoy Exploring (23 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

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

Results of above parfait, washed and dried. Red in mix reacted more quickly than the blue as layers added.

Diagonal black- gray gradation tightly wrinkled while dyeing.

Boysenberry value gradation across a flat piece of fabric.

Basic method LWI, very tightly folded cotton, squeezed but not stirred. Some color separation.

Soda first on folded sateen, colors poured on and pressed in but not stirred.

Cotton tightly wound with string on plastic pipe, soda, then dye.

Detail of silk clamped with discarded DVDs, basic method LWI.

Explore combining! First printed and painted with dye and resist, later folded LWI.