After painting patterns with watercolours for a while, I wanted to try something a little different when I discovered how well bleach worked when applied on top of Brusho dyes. This soon became my obsession and I ended up filling a sketchbook with these very basic marks. Although you may not be able to tell because I didn't paint them on large paper, they are a repeat, a very linear repeat, but still. Just a simple stripe.
At the moment, I thinking about developing these further and working with devore paste on to velvet and satin - my two favourite fabrics to work with. As the bleach takes the colour away from the inks, I feel like this will translate well when the same marks on painted onto the fabric with the devore paste as this will burn away the viscose fibres in the cloth (just leaving the silk). This will also then allow me to cross dye the fabrics, using acid for silk and dyrect for the viscose fibres, each will take the colour for those fibres, which I'm hoping will give these patterns a whole new look.
Colour on colour for life.
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