These are some fabric pieces that I did a few weeks ago, playing around with bleach discharge on solid black Kona cotton. Originally, I was doing an exercise from Beryl Taylor's book, Mixed Media Explorations, in which she stamps with bleach on velvet. One thing lead to another, and I ended up bleaching yards of black fabric! We were playing around with this on my Artist's Circle group.
You can fold the fabric, scrunch it, tie-dye (with bleach), use an eye dropper for a dotted effect, or use a foam rubber stamp to get an image. I used regular undiluted household bleach, and stopped the bleach reaction by placing the fabric in a bath of Anti-Chlor and water. I can't wait to use these pieces in some art quilts!
6 comments:
These are fantastic!
I love using bleach on velvet, leaves such a wonderful gold colour. Great sampples, can't wait to see where you go with them.
FABULOUS!
Wow! That is amazing! I hope you were wearing old clothes. I'm such a mess I'd have everything within 10 feet bleached. Your cloth is gorgeous.
I love working with bleach and the neat designs you can come up with. My latest endeavor had been going on for months now. I love using bleach pens but they just don't last long enough and i can't afford as many as I want. So anyone got any good ideas now how to thicken bleach to the same consistency you find in a bleach pen? Email follow-up comments to zoomieesq@gmail.com
Thank you
I love working with bleach and the neat designs you can come up with. My latest endeavor had been going on for months now. I love using bleach pens but they just don't last long enough and i can't afford as many as I want. So anyone got any good ideas now how to thicken bleach to the same consistency you find in a bleach pen? van_morel@yahoo.com
Thank you
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