During the Christmas holiday I was told to start thinking about motif designs to be exposed onto screens. At first it took me a while to get my head around the DATA theme. I soon realized that data is in my everyday life and that it wasn't just something scientific and mathematical. I've based my overall theme around time and how we record things in diary's, calenders, how we are always constantly looking at the time and making time. This then got my thinking about objects that tell time. I then developed this further and to see how make time. This included things from how we use time management to what make time go round. So looking into cogs within watches/clocks. This then got me to my motif ideas at the start of the term.
This week began with working with the hand painting on screen with reactive dyes. This was a quick technique when you can get hand painted marks on to screen and then screen print them as normal with a manutex layer which releases the image onto the fabric. I found that the dyes worked a bit like water coloured paints. My first sample of this technique was based upon the development drawings from the research weeks. I want to develop the hand painted samples further in the project. I also go the chance to dip dye and tie die fabrics with direct dyes. I prefer to work on a coloured background and it will suit my colour pallet/image better as there isn't much white in the image.
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