PAINTING FABRICS

I loved using the fabric paints on paper to then heat-press and transfer it onto fabrics. It was such a simple process but the results were really interesting. I came back to do this on Friday as I enjoyed it so much. As the day went on I got better and only wished I had more time. I tried layering the designs as you can use the same piece of paper in the heat-press more than once. Synthetic fabric seemed to work a lot better than the cottons and also produced much more vibrant colours. It was difficult to know what your outcome was going to look like as the colours looked completely different on the paper. I tried to merge the colours to give more of a fade but they dried so quickly that it was hard to do. I plan to take this technique into third year when I improve my technique and learn what works well and what doesn’t. The orange circles worked quite well and if I had more time I would probably experiment with this design using screenprint to get perfect shapes.

Looking back, I feel as though this experimentation was quite restricting as I want to create something a bit more abstract and free. I feel like dyeing may be a good route to go down or tie-dye if I want to create more of a pattern.