I know, I know; you're thinking "that's a sun print?" Okay, I admit, it's an unexpected result, but I went about it in the expected way - just used unusual colours.
I didn't want to use the expected green, so thought if I did black, I might end up with some cool, gray leaf shaped resists.
I didn't want to do just boring old green, (and this green is really boring - I had only a tiny bit of turquoise blue left to add to my yellow with this soft blue-green as the result.)
With the black version, after I added my leaves, the surface I had it sitting on was smaller than the fabric, so I scrunched in the edges on all sides - and for good measure, I squirted some purple and red dye over the whole thing.
When it was done - it looked solid black - even under the leaves - but when I finished rinsing it out - DELICIOUS!
And when I pulled off the leaves - I got a fairly predictable result on the green, and this gloriously beautiful result on the black.
I realized that my back garden is too shady to do sun prints effectively - I spent the whole day chasing the sun around the parts of the garden that weren't covered by tree branches or the shade of the tree branches so I won't be trying traditional sun prints again.
But I might - because I really love that black version and I'm curious about what else could happen - with or without the addition of leaves - as they don't seem to have made a difference at all.
Hmmmm...
Sounds like something I would do - chasing the sun around the garden, lol! I do love the deeper, richer colours you've achieved on the black version. Overdyeing always gives interesting colour combinations xx
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