Searching for design inspiration, I randomly set myself a theme. The beach! I sketched out several ideas and variations, some abstract some more literal, and spent ages agonising over which one I should do... aaargh, so indecisive!! Eventually settled on this very simple and abstract one, obviously! since we are really pushed for time and space in our class and it's best not to to turn up with very ambitious ideas. I had to finish this one at home since I only managed to get halfway through in class. But I am seriously considering setting up at home to print at least one of my other beach-related ideas too.
I used a lovely lightweight cotton/linen from Spotlight, in a soft sandy shade. This is probably the nicest, classiest fabric I have printed so far. It was scary, but I felt ready to take a risk.
The colour palette (6 colours) :
Funny moment; my friend J, with whom I am doing the class, on seeing my stencil "um, it's a hole?"
When printing I tried to vary the visual texture of the dots; at times I did a scanty pull, to get scratchy dots, at other times I put together blobs of slightly different shades of the colours without mixing properly, to get streaked or blotchy dots.
