More experiments....

I’ve been continuing with my experiments in the print room of floral prints and colours. This time I added more texture and tonal variety by being braver and mixing different dyes together. I’m really pleased with how the heat press samples turned out as the colours look very strong, whereas in the last samples they looked a little weak and the designs too being very small. Also wanted to work on a larger scale of fabric with my silk screen printing just to be freer with my designing and enlarge features of the flowers. Working on bigger pieces of silk also helped me see how the silk would hang and drape and how the design looked from this. I wanted to use Liberty’s idea of shocking and sharp colours to have a more modern take on the florals as sometimes with floral designs they can look a little oldy worldy.  

I also found a very useful book in the Library today, with many photographs of Orchids and Lilies that I think I will start using in my designs; getting to the point where am painting the same one flower over and over again – not good!  I will use this book as a resource for doing a few more large scale paintings of flowers.  It would be nice to have long trailing Orchids flowing down the fabric so it appears as though they are moving.


The images above are photos of my most current silk screen prints and heat press prints which I have layered ontop of one another, want to organise them on a couple of boards so I can present my experiments and sampling to other people.