





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!
These are fantastic!
ReplyDeleteI love using bleach on velvet, leaves such a wonderful gold colour. Great sampples, can't wait to see where you go with them.
ReplyDeleteFABULOUS!
ReplyDeleteWow! 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.
ReplyDeleteI 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
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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
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