Last Thursday and Friday I took a workshop with Wendy Huhn. If you don’t know her work, check it out. She uses all kinds of interesting images and transfers them onto her pieces. There are themes to her work and you really have to look and think about what it all means. I have been interested in learning how to get images on fabric for a while now and so was very excited to take her workshop. We learned several different methods that all give different results. Which method you use depends on what kind of look you are going for. Here some examples.
These images are prepped for a xylene transfer. It will transfer only a black and white image.
These images were transfered using Citra-Solv and it is used to transfer color images.
These images were screened onto the fabric with fabric paint and the screens were made using a thermafax machine. Boy was this awesome. I’ve never screen printed before and I really loved this.
This last picture is mostly screen printed images as well as one that has metallic foil and one on the top left that is mono printed.
Wendy was a great teacher and I really learned a lot in this workshop. Well
worth taking if you should ever get the chance.