Showing posts with label salt dyeing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label salt dyeing. Show all posts
Thursday, July 24, 2008

Dye Painting with Salts -- the Easy Way

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When I started on this adventure to create some dyed pieces using salts, I read all the conventional wisdom on doing this including the dire...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

More and More Rain and Some Dyeing!

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Just a picture of some of Joe's pretty flowers! These are pictures of about a 18 x 22 section of the piece. Each full sized piece is 2 y...
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Sunday, July 20, 2008

Dyeing in the Rain Yet Again!

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Well, I smartened up this time and reclaimed part of the garage for dyeing today! The piece that got rain soaked yesterday has happily come...
Saturday, July 19, 2008

Dyeing in the Rain!

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This is one corner of the piece of the multi-dyed one that I did yesterday. I was very pleased with how it turned out! The picture is a b...
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Friday, July 18, 2008

High Temps = Painting with Salts Again

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This is the beginning picture of what the first piece today looked like. It dried very dark but is washing out quite a bit now. We shall s...
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Thursday, July 10, 2008

Followup to Yesterday's Salt Dye

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Well, just had to post a couple of pictures of my attempt yesterday and you can see the results today. I am extremely pleased and ratcheting...
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Trying to Squeeze One Last Day Before the Cool Weather Returns!

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This is the finished sponge piece from yesterday. The other piece was nice as well but my picture was weird so I didn't post it. The col...
Tuesday, July 8, 2008

A Scorcher Out There..

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So what better day than this to do some more dyeing. I got expelled from the garage so am making do with the driveway and hoping that the ex...
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Sunday, June 29, 2008

The Rescue from Mediocrity -- Salt Dyes Again!

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Well, my terminally ugly piece has new life as a beautiful deep navy with green and brown undertones -- I am very pleased! Well, I posed a q...
Saturday, June 28, 2008

More on the Salt Dyes -- What Not to Do

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My favorite begonias are going crazy in the planter on the front steps. I just loved this pinky/orange/yellow one. Well, the night last nig...
Friday, June 27, 2008

Dyeing with Salts -- First of the Summer!

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This is a two yard piece of fabric stretched out over two six foot long tables. There is another piece underneath and is separated from this...