Dec 29
This is a better indigo tie dye than the last one, probably because it’s not a tie dye. I used washable Elmer’s glue as a batik resist and free-hand drew these carp. Japanese carp are something I’ve drawn enough to feel pretty confident about them, and I thought they would look well with white on …
Dec 08
I made this because I wanted to play with resist and indigo. I had made another shirt using Rit dye, which turned out horribly, and was advised it was because it was a new, unwashed shirt that still had sizing on it. So I took some cheap 1005 cotton shirts and washed them and set …
Aug 20
This is the second bleach-shirt I made, and I went with a much simpler design than the branches of the first one. Yes, I put a bird on it. If you’re wondering why there’s art today instead of a chapter of Changer’s Turf, it’s because Changer’s Turf is finished. That’s right. I’m going to …
Aug 11
I got this idea also from Pinterest. On the pinterest site, someone used a stencil of an owl, cut out of contact paper. Hey, I thought. I have some contact paper. so I cut the branches and bird and laid them on the shirt. Then I sprayed it with bleach. Nothing happened. I smelled …
Jul 29
I saw something like this on pinterest, where a woman showed how to use washable gel glue as a resist to batik dye a tee shirt. She wrote something on there, but I decided to use a mehindi design. On the left, you can see where I’ve drawn the design in glue and let …
