Time for another big panel, about 24" x 48", on my favorite cotton sateen. The big leaves are the dreaded Japanese knotweed and the smaller compound leaves are native Virginia creeper, so it's a study in contrast on multiple levels. I used a combination of cyanotype chemicals with just a small glug of Solarfast solar dye. The first image is just before exposure. The next one is after it sat in the hot sun all afternoon, but pre-rinse.
Here's the result. For as long as I've been doing this, you'd think I would not be surprised by the outcome, but this one behaved in new-to-me ways as the chemicals and colors moved around. I have a long, long queue of prints waiting for my attention, to be made into art quilts, but this one may jump the line a bit as I am entranced by it.
3 comments:
This piece is awesome!!! You're right...you are never 100% sure of what you'll get but that's the best part (sometimes! HA).
Really fun to see your process steps. Would also like to see a bit more environment around the piece. Is that blue edge part of it? Love!
That's the entire panel, the blue along the sides is just a part of the way I exposed it. It will be part of a larger quilt, at some point, and then I will add elements that further play with the color scheme.
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