So then it's been a while since I last posted about my HIVE SIDES project. There are no excuses, I've just not been up to blogging recently; however I'm getting back into the swing of things. Therefore I thought I'd start back with progress I've been making towards my End of Year Show. Beside my three Hexagons which will all contain separate methods I decided to produce some lengths of fabrics of which people can openly purchase or make an order for in their own preferred colours and fabric. I also think the lengths of fabric give myself and others a view of how my design can work in different colour ways, which I was pleasantly surprised at when creating the two lengths shown in this post.
Below are images of my first Length of fabric which I produced. I decided to use completely different colours for my Length of fabrics, therefore for this one I used the Pigments Blues (Blue B), Lime Greens (Yellow 2G and Green B) and Purples (Blue B and Pink 5BTL). The Fabric I used for these Lengths of print was Muslin Cream and the reason for this is that I really like how light and, delicate it is which I feel relates to the wings of a Honey Bee.
First Layer, printed with mixed Blue and Purple Pigments
Second Layer, Lime Green Pigment.
These next images are of my second Length of fabric of which I produced. I wanted to link my design to the garden and nature landscape where Honey Bee's are mainly found; therefore I used different shades of greens (Different mixes of Green B, Yellow 2G and Brown). Unlike the first length of fabric where I mixed the pigments for the first layer I kept this one as a plain Green print. For the second layer I wanted to add an effect to my to avoid it all being a plain straight forward print; therefore I used two different pigments one Dark Green for the edges of the hexagons and a Dark Lime Green for the centers. I think this idea worked really well and has made the print eye catching and has added a 3D factor to it.
Overall I was really surprised at how different my print looked in these colours, but it was not a bad surprise I loved it, my design looked so different which I actually really liked. I was worried the colours wouldn't work together but in-fact I personally think they do and the floaty material
My friend Becca helped me to print one of my Lengths of fabric as I did in return for her. This was due to our screens being on the repeat bar and them being too large to pull the pigment through ourselves. Please feel free to check out Becca's Blog she has based her FMP on Science and Cells its amazing please follow to link to check it out.
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