Sampling

Here are a couple of photos of what I have been working on the last couple of days. The digital elements have just been printing and I'll be posting photos of the final outcomes hopefully next week. 

This was a successful piece and I managed to try a lot of different printing techniques such as; pigment, acid, Procion, discharge and hand painting. I then dip dyed this and I think it worked really well.

Here are a couple of samples which include gold metallic binder, pigment binder and illuminated discharge. The deep emerald background sample works well with the violet discharge but I feel this could be developed further with some hand painted areas of pearl binder.

Above is a sample of hold metallic binder with violet illuminated discharge. The discharge is very subtle but in this case works well because the gold is the main part of this design. Next to it is a photocopy of my drawings onto acetate which I have put into a screen and this is used as a digital element within one of my finals. I think I could add some embellishment to this one with hand embroidery.

I feel this sample is again quite subtle, to develop this further I could paint in some discharge to take away the colour from certain areas which would give more definition to my print.

Here I have overplayed a silk organza print with illuminated pigment discharge ontop of a Procion printed sample. The layering works well but I feel this could be more interesting with embellishment.

Finally I decided to scan in my fabric samples to photoshop and began messing around with different colours. This was great to do however when this was digitally printed it didn't print in the same colours as I could see on the computer screen because they were not pantones. However I am going to develop that sample with added print and stitch and it might turn into something completely different.