The second class was at RDI again.
I actually forgot my camera battery, so don’t have pics of the day itself, but related ones from the first class and afterwards.
The following are examples Rebecca brought in – linoleum block prints, silk screen prints and various dye colors.
the greenhouse classroom
preparing coreopsis pigment
The coreopsis pigment gets poured into a cookie sheet, called lakeing, and left for the next few weeks to completely dry out. You scrape up the remaining powder and the dehydrated pigment can then be rehydrated and used as a water color or other natural pigment.
oak galls
oak gall pigment
oak gall laking
I made my first linoleum block print for this workshop. fun.
We then printed it on our dyed fabric using an ink we made from a concentrated dye that was thickened with sodium alginate.
yarn block print
yarn prints
these are all the various colors we got out of the day. apple prints, wood block prints, linoleum block, silk screen, using an acetate, and our nature print.
various prints
The following are some natural dyes on display at the Yolo Wool Mill mill-in.
Coming up soon I will post about my first solo dye process using onion skins.
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