hand dye – Artsi Fartsi Triscartsi

Dyeing to Stamp!

Barbara Triscari — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:58:44 +0000

We are still plugging away at our dyeing class at the Indy Art Center with Bobbie Vance. I have been stamping and screening. I have a few pieces that I’m building up some layers. The one above was randomly stamped with a wood stamp that I got from Global Gifts a wonderful fair trade store in Indy and Bloomington.

three layers!

This one, above, I dyed in a light blue and then screened on the pink hail and this time I added red hail again with a thermofax screen from my hail photos. My next step is thermofaxing screening more hail with corn syrup and then overdyeing.

wood stamp random prints

overprinted using wooden stamp

Dusk Quilt Series

Barbara Triscari — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:55:19 +0000

I have two quilts going into a local exhibit opening this Friday with an artist open house. The theme is “Put a Bird on it!” Since I had been working with leather and printing birds and flowers on the leather, they seemed the perfect fit and submitted them. It is a local Indy show and hope that some local friends can come out and see them while they hang through March.

Dance of Dusk

Photo of tree printed on copper

The first is my first quilt mixing leather, weaving and quilting, not to mention metal. The quilt basically has a giant hole in it where the woven leather sun is. The top is a rod pocket to hang from a bamboo rod.

Dance of Dusk was made to evoke a sunset and fence line at dusk as the birds are scurrying to finish up the day with one last bite, flight or snuggle before heading back to the nest as the sun goes down. What at first seems to be a quiet calm reveals that there are pockets of quiet motion of the birds.

Photos printed on leather

Dreaming of Dusk

Dreaming of Dusk

Dreaming of Dusk detail

This piece was fun to try out some more techniques like bobbin work and using some fabrics with surface designs. I also embellished with some silk fibers and a carrier rod. This quilt also used my original photos on fabric and leather and evokes the same business of dusk in the life of birds.

There is an artists’ reception this Friday March 2, 6-10 pm. and will hang through March 30th.

Harrison Center for the Arts

1505 N. Delaware St

Indianapolis, In

Second Batch from Dye Class

Barbara Triscari — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:20:22 +0000

We had a great time in dye class sharing our first batches of fabric. Some real beauties! We did a bit of clamp resist.

I did a piece with corn startch resist and the wooden stamp again. I also got my new thermofax screens and can’t wait to get a chance to try them out!

Dye Class Fun

Barbara Triscari — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:04:34 +0000

I’m taking an independent studio dye class by Bobbie Vance at the Indianopolis Art Center. We are a small class, just 4 of us and the other 3 are on their second class after having taken monoprint dyeing last semester. So, while they are learning the basics, I’m playing. Bobbie does some beautiful dyeing and I’m glad she decided to do this class before she moves away. She also makes thermofax screens and I just gave her a small stack of graphics from photos I took in Italy and I can’t wait to get playing with those as well!

Pole Wrapped Shibori Overdye

I jumped right in and did some pole, clamp, and stitched shibori.

Clamped Resist Using Plastic Electrical Outlet Faceplate

I used corn syrup and mashed potatoes as resists with mixed success.

Corn Syrup Stamped Resisted and Overdyed

I am also working on some fabric for a fabric shop challenge, but I’ll save that for the next post.

I wanted to match a color in a challenge fabric and had a fabulous success on the first shot. Gotta love that! It is only the second time I’ve gone for a particular color and it worked last time as well. I look at either pantones or print colors and the breakdowns of the colors used to make them and use those basic percentages when mixing the dye powders. Hopefully it hasn’t just been beginners luck. Below is a small sample. The wheat print on the left is original. Next is the overdyed shibori pole wrap. Top right is two test yellows which matched the original golden yellow in the prints and on top of that is the all over tree print that I overdyed with a very very closely matched red. Below right is the wheat print shibori overdyed with test swatches of some premixed dyes which were not quite the right color.

Overdyed Commercial Farm Print Overdyed to Match the Red in the Trees.