This week I tried a new resist technique I had read about on another blog (And Then We Set It On Fire). I've done resists with commercial products, flour, even baby cereal...but never sugar! So I just had to give it a try.
While the main emphasis was on sugar syrup that one makes with granulated sugar and water boiled, etc. I had limited time so I just found the other sugars mentioned by someone else on another post....pancake syrup, molasses, and corn syrup. Sounded like enough to give the technique a try and see what happens...and here are the steps and the results.
First I set everything out - vinyl work cloth, palatte for resist, fabric, resist printing tools, syrups, and Jaquard Dyna-Flow paints (on the original tutorial - thickened dyes were used but again - time constraints won the day)
So in the end, when I had hung the pieces up to dry, I had a very interesting design of paint left behind on the vinyl work cloth. I decided to use it for a monoprint. My bonus piece from this technique experiment!
I really like the results from this technique. So much so that I'm sure I will give it a try sometime soon using the thickened dyes and maybe even make the sugar syrup!
While the main emphasis was on sugar syrup that one makes with granulated sugar and water boiled, etc. I had limited time so I just found the other sugars mentioned by someone else on another post....pancake syrup, molasses, and corn syrup. Sounded like enough to give the technique a try and see what happens...and here are the steps and the results.
First I set everything out - vinyl work cloth, palatte for resist, fabric, resist printing tools, syrups, and Jaquard Dyna-Flow paints (on the original tutorial - thickened dyes were used but again - time constraints won the day)
All Set to Start
Then I applied the resists
Pancake Syrup / Computer part
Molasses / Commercial Stamp and Punchinella
Corn Syrup / Squiggly Straw and tray from package of glue sticks
Jaquard Dyna-Flow paints were applied with syringes. I used Violet, Periwinkle and Midnight Blue on all the pieces.
Pancake Syrup
Molasses
Corn Syrup
And here are the results
Pancake syrup
Molasses
Corn Syrup
So in the end, when I had hung the pieces up to dry, I had a very interesting design of paint left behind on the vinyl work cloth. I decided to use it for a monoprint. My bonus piece from this technique experiment!
Bonus Monoprint
I really like the results from this technique. So much so that I'm sure I will give it a try sometime soon using the thickened dyes and maybe even make the sugar syrup!
3 comments:
never knew art could taste so sweet
Great results! I think using paint will give a better result than thickened dye. Because of the fact that thickened dye has to batch it will give the resist a chance to spread, in other words not very clear defined lines. But I have to admit I have not yet tried these resists.
Paul - I guess I should confess...I did eat the leftover molasses.....
Wil - THANKS! Oh and you KNOW you WILL be trying these resists before too long!!!
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