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Too hot to handle

Finally a fairly catastrophe free week... a week full of screen printing at college learning discharge techniques - all of which produce interesting effects - take up loads of time and energy and don't particularly appeal to me!  I think it about practicing and finding the right colours and images, I have dyed a lot of fabric this week and I quite enjoy the process but I cant get the colours right - I cant get the depth of colour I want in the cotton fabrics and I'm loathe to use expensive silks until I either know what I'm doing or can get colours right!!! drying dyeing - but more colour but still not deep!!! I've had a further play with heat transfer printing and continue to be amazed at the colour transformation from paper to material.  Using an A1 sheet of paper I mish mashed a load of greens and blues and threw in a bit of bleach to lighten some of the tones - I swirled it about using a big brush and then dried it off with a hair drier - the ended result looke...