I love color! Specific colors! I become obsessed with one, and although these obsessions change over time, they are quite powerful, and have driven me through this journey of learning as much about how to make a certain color as I possibly can (and I realize that my journey is never ending). I love seeing…
Here is a (hopefully) complete list of all the reagents and supplies you’ll need to complete all the activities in this class, along with explanations of that what these items are and why you need them (I’ve also created a simple checklist to print out and use as you’re gathering everything together, it’s posted for…
Session 2 Sections Supplies Fabric Prep Batch Files to Save/Print Dyeing 100 Session 2: Dyeing Tints 100-2 6 step tints formulas In painting, a tint is achieved by adding white paint to any pure hue. With a bit of white an intense magenta becomes rose, add some more and it becomes pink. But painting is…
In this session, we’ll mix our primary dyes, two at a time. When mixing blue with yellow, you’ll get all sorts of teal and green hues, “red”, which is really a magenta/fuschia + yellow gives us reds to oranges to golds, and finally blue to “red” will yield an indigo and lots of different purples….
In this session, we’re going to dye a color wheel. If you took a look at the 2 color mixes you dyed in the last session, you saw all sorts of hues between the primary dyes. Now I’ve chosen mixtures of 2 dyes that actually create each color on the color wheel: Those circles are…
In this session, dyeing shades of our primary colors. A shade is achieved by adding black to a pure. Black is the color we get when the material we are looking at absorbs all visible wavelengths of light, reflecting no color light back for our eyes to perceive. A black dye is made mixing together…
In this session, we’ll mix each primary color with its complementary color. Complementary colors are hues that lie directly across each other in the color wheel, illustrated here by the arrow. (Smart cookies will realize that in the color wheel, there are more than 3 sets of complementary colors – in this figure all those…
Well, here we are at the end of the class. I hope you’ve enjoyed making lots of fabric in glorious colors! If you dyed a fat quarter of each formula in each class, you should have a set of stacks of fabrics that look like this: And you should have a notebook: with swatches mounted…
