Lately, I have been working with fabric. It has provided a great outlet for me to play with my stash by dyeing, painting, quilting, incorporating surface design techniques, and anything else which I can think up. Today, I decided to try using Colourarte's Primary Elements pigment powder to paint on some fabric that I had dyed a few months ago.
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| Hand dyed denim on left and cotton scarf on right |
Obviously, blue is a first choice for me when it comes to adding additional color! I used several different colors of Primary Elements but chose to stick with a cool palette. (Maybe even a 'cold' palette, as in sherbert! *See note below.) At the time, I was thinking of a tone on tone effect. But as I was painting, I realized that more contrast would be more interesting so I grabbed some solid fabric to paint, too. Those pictures are below the scarf.
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| Stargazer, Bolivian Blue and Green Pearl Primary Elements on tie-dyed scarf |
In order to see how the rich colors of the pigment powder would work with a colorless extender I mixed about a teaspoon of the pigment powder with about a tablespoon of medium. This is what I used:
It was fun to mix the powders and see the results. Sometimes paint colors change quite a bit when they are dry, so the anticipation of the end product was part of the fun! I decided to add a bit of white Brusho Colourcraft powder to the pigment powder to see if it would change the opacity much. It may have been that I did not add enough but it wasn't a very noticeable change.
The pink denim fabric was left over from when my 11 year old daughter and I made an apron together several years ago. She wants me to make a book bag from today's painting experiment! I love how the large stencil from this month's Stencil Girl Club collection made this project even easier! The colors of the fabrics and the paints remind me of summer days with ice cream and sprinkles.
*Colourarte is having a "sherbert challenge" and I thought of Raspberry when I pulled out the fabric. The painted colors showed up a lot better on the solid color fabric. And the picture below is a better representation of the background fabric!
The large piece of blue dyed denim in the top couple of pictures was painted also. But I will share the outcome of that on another day when I have sewn it into something!
I hope you have a wonderful, warm day with a cold treat! Thank you for stopping by today!
Have a wonderful day!
Beverly
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| Forest Green Primary Elements is most noticeable on the top left piece |
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| The lighting is wonky, but this is actually an intense pink color! |
*Colourarte is having a "sherbert challenge" and I thought of Raspberry when I pulled out the fabric. The painted colors showed up a lot better on the solid color fabric. And the picture below is a better representation of the background fabric!
The large piece of blue dyed denim in the top couple of pictures was painted also. But I will share the outcome of that on another day when I have sewn it into something!
I hope you have a wonderful, warm day with a cold treat! Thank you for stopping by today!
Have a wonderful day!
Beverly
Hay I was wondering if you had more info or if I could pick your brain? How did you get the dye to fix? Did you do something after or was it the medium and what was your technique? These look beautiful
ReplyDeleteHello! I am so sorry for the delay in responding to your question, but I did not see it until today! Jacquard Textile Colors (and the colorless extender) should be heat set. I prefer to use a dry iron and iron on the back side of my fabric. Also, a hot clothes dryer works, too - but I like to see what is happening with the fabric so I almost always use an iron.
DeleteAny idea how to use powder pigment to dye the fabric itself?
ReplyDeleteHi! Most of my hand-dyed fabrics are dyed with dyes that I purchased through Dharma Trading Co. They have a variety of dyes available depending on the type of fabric and dyeing method one wants to use. I haven't tried mixing Colourarte's Primary Elements or any other pigment powders sold to the mixed media artist/paper crafter to make an overall dye. If I were to experiment, I would work in a very small batch and try the more standard dyeing methods. That being said, it probably would be too cost prohibitive for me to do any large batch processing. Because the cost for the small containers is what it is, I have only used them for painting onto the fabric.
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