Welcome to part 21 of my adventures in wet cyanotyope printing. I am still catching up with some prints I did early in June. Where I left off, I had run out of my preferred treated cotton sateen. I prepped some more, but while waiting for it to dry, I dug out the absolute, final, dregs and scraps of that ancient commercially treated muslin. Above are two Japanese anemone leaves, with appealing crooks in their stems, and below is another hosta leaf, once again my favorite 'August Moon'.
Again, I sprayed the setup with a mix of highly diluted red textile paint, diluted soda ash, and plain water, covered it with glass, and put it out for a roughly 24 hour exposure.
Lots and lots of Japanese anemone leaves this time, because why not?
Here are the exposed, un-rinsed prints. Once again, the old chemicals broke down in all sorts of extreme and extravagant ways.
Those rusty brown swirls are just thrilling.
Lots of sparkly highlights as well.
Here are the finished, rinsed and dried prints. They have lovely, dreamy pastel tones with streaks of darker blues.
For me they are transportive.
More dreaminess here:
A little bit of washout at the bottom right of this one, but in a cool way that would be easy to fix with some stitching.
In general I still prefer my usual harder-edged, higher contrast prints, especially for their ultimate use in the kind of art quilts I plan on making with them. But this has been a lovely side excursion.
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