Heat press workshops with Alison!

Every Wednesday after lunch we have 2 hours with Alison who has been doing a workshop where we get practical and explore the outcomes and effects that different materials achieve under the heat press.  I enjoy this workshop as we are given the chance to explore and manipulate different materials so they can shrink or be used as a mold in some sort of design or even just the basic idea of changing the texture of these materials. I can say that my ideas using the heat press flowed like water in a river, I was very determined and empowered to try everything that I could think of to explore many different techniques of manipulation, these are examples of a few that I created:

The first image is the hand drawn original using heat transfer paints.  The second one is that first image printed onto calico, the reason it is so faint is because calico doesnt take up the ink as it should but thats what I like about it as it creates mystery.  the last one is printed on a polyester so it soaked up the colours very well to portray near enough the same image, however I was very disappointed that the shadows came out pink but as this was a trial and error workshop I made a reference for the future if I go to use the red wine colour of the heat transfer paints!

 The samples above are examples of plastic materials manipulation,  I liked this kind of manipulation because so much can be expanded on and produced with it, it is a very versatile technique and I think I will use this for future projects.

The samples above are my favourite of them all, I think they are very success full and look like something that you could defiantly see on the catwalk as a future print.  For these samples I deliberately used different fabric so I could observe the outcome on the different textures.  To achieve the print I painted a piece of card black and used feathers to act as a barrier between the paint and the fabric as you can see above the first 2 samples were most successfull as they were on a polyester fabric and the ink was fresh.  However I am very pleased with the effect that was produced from the 2 below as it gives off a more vintage vibe because the paint was running out so that cause the black behind to be less vibrant, which I think creates an interesting illusion!