LET'S DYE!

TYE-DYE

BEGINNING 3-D ART

cotton cloth, Rit dyes, rubber bands, string, clamps, clothes pins

The results the beginners achieved with these inexpensive cloth dyes were spectacular.

They were shown traditional techniques from the 1960's & 70's, 

as well as more contemporary folding and clamping techniques.

Many of the kids also chose to add some rusty metal findings which added even more interest.

Let's take a peek.

I felt that senior Simran Ranjit's piece was truly unique and super eye-catching.

And I love the rust pieces she incorporated.

 8th grader Annie Nguyen used a traditional technique that she off centered,

overlapping and dipping into each of the Primary colors for a powerful pop of color.

Gorgeous Annie!

And very brave 8th grader Bhumika Kalaimalai 

left her top piece above in the fuchsia dye for an extra long time

resulting in that rich & deep reddish violet.

In some of the pix here,

you might be seeing two pieces together,

like here in Bhu's photo..

It's because the kids were required to make two very different patterns,

but with at least one similar color so if used together they would have visual flow.

As you can see here, 

Bhumika did just that.

11th grader Sandra Chea pinched and rolled her top cloth into a spiral,

then dipped into blue, red & black for another striking design,

on top of her very soft looking clamped piece underneath. 

And youngster Adiyan Hossain,

an 8th grader,

folded and clamped this gorgeous piece,

then dipped into blue and purple.

And I love this soft blue/green piece by junior Rachel Tibayan.

She folded, clamped and added a bit of rust.

And check out this beauty by 8th grader Sophia Oporto.

Looks like Sophia made many folds towards the center therefore getting a starburst.

And everyone loved both Sahana Ramesh's cloths.  

Both are super cool as well as dynamic.

But it was this one by senior Hana Kim that was so very special.

When asked how she achieved her results,

she said she took a brush and simple painted with the dyes onto her cloth.

Brilliant!

Which totally changes up this whole assignment with possibilities for next year.

LOVE & EFFORT

Yesterday in the post about Woven Gift Card Journals,

I showed you this one given to me at the end of last school year by English teacher Donna Hall.

What I forgot to insert next was the love & effort she put inside the journal.

She had completely filled all her pages with a beautiful handwritten letter,

and in between the writing she had cut and pasted all these marvelous passages 

that meant so much to me.

I'd like to share them.

Thank you again Donna for this heartfelt gift of words,

both your musings and your passages.

You were a ray of sunshine on a daily basis.

Both the kids and I adored having you join and create with us.

We love you to the moon and back!!!

WOVEN GIFT CARD JOURNALS

WOVEN FABRIC GIFT CARD JOURNALS

BEGINNING 3-D ART

cotton fabric, indigo bucket, tye-dye buckets, solar printing fabric, cardstock in various colors,

multi-colored sewing threads, sewing notions,beads, buttons & other embellishments

Earlier in the year the kids learned how to create a journal with fabric & stitch,

so I thought it would be cool to have them make a whole new decorative piece of fabric

 to cut up and weave with for another journal.

This would be their cover,

and their would be revisiting a former assignment that I didn't have to re-teach

because we were running out of time as it was the end of the year

They had enjoyed the paper weaving so they were excited to give this a try as well..

OMG,

my art room was buzzing with energy as the kids got these journal covers underway.

Because this was their 4th Quarter Final,

I wanted them to revisit and reuse their favorite printing/dyeing or shibori technique

to create a very beautiful piece of fabric 

that was to be cut up and woven into their journal cover page.

The results were spectacular as you will see.

Junior Connie Wu created the most glorious piece of tye-dye to work with.

I brought in my own multi-colored quilting threads for the kids to use as warp string

which they threaded thru a sturdy piece of card stock.

You can really see those multi-colors in the close-up below.

Then they wove their cut weft pieces thru. 

The hardest part for many of them was carefully and exactly cutting 

an opening into another piece of card stock to frame out their weaving with.

This piece of paper was to be the front and back cover of the journals

with an extra flap that covered their knots on the backside of the cover.

Very complicated and had to be demoed many times.

Of course next came the handmade signature papers for their journal pages

which they strung in with waxed linen in a figure eight pattern.

I also required the embellishment of beads on the string ends.

Junior Margaret Yiu also came up with a spectacular piece.

She made 2 tye-dye pieces to work with and alternated them.

So very beautiful wsa this more subtle one by junior Rachel Kannampuzha.

Can you figure out her clever alternation pattern

which makes this look so terrific?

Senior Sarah Woo reused a practice piece that she had made for the Solar Dyed Pillow project.

I love that she chose to weave it with orange paper for more of a mixed media effect.

I also really liked her diagonal lines.

These next two belong to seniors Vicky Hur & Daphne Wang.

Let's see what they did.

I believe Daphne used 2 pieces that went into the indigo bucket.

One light the other more dips for a darker value.

And below is a close up of Vicky's.

Looks like she used a piece of her stitched Shibori fabric thru the center,

and a tye-dye strip on either end.

I really like that effect!

Makes a nice border around the special Shibori piece.

Also note that both Daphne and Vicky are warping on the horizontal rather then the vertical.

Nice!

Below is a close-up of the inside of Vicky's journal pages.

I like that she has used different colors and different sizes of paper 

for more interest.

Also note below on the cover backside

 that there is a flap of card stock that covers all the inside knots and strings.

We used a glue stick for that so it didn't warp the card stock paper.

This little cutie belongs to senior Julie Ahn.

Looks like she also alternated a couple different tye-dye fabrics.

And note that her journal cover opens on the horizontal rather then the vertical.

for that the beads flow over top.

Senior Saba Fatima also chose to have hers open horizontally.

I love her tye-dye fabric as well as how her beads hang thru the middle.

This next one was made by English Teacher Donna Hall,

and she wrote inside it and gave to me as a thank you card/journal at the end of the school year.

What you can't see real well in the photo 

is the tiny pair of scissors that hang with the beads,

 and the metal tag that says "Made with Love".

And let me show you the love and effort that she put inside this journal.

We all loved the effect that junior Lynette Lee got with this piece of paper towel 

that went into the tye-dye bath.

And when she wove with it,

notice the perfect alignment with itself.

So gorgeous!

8th grader James Lara turned out a super cool journal as well.

He dyed thicker cotton string then wove a difficult "Ying-Yang" symbol.

And the buttons looked great over top.

I also appreciated that he incorporated several of his Polymer bead creations from earlier in the year.

Oh my,

look at these pretties by juniors Britney Hong & Samantha Tan.

Both girls made new tye-dye pieces 

and it looks as if they both off set them rather then perfectly lining the strips up over top each other.

It gives both pieces a really op-art type of look.

And then we have 8th grader Yusra Azmi.

Always an outside of the box thinker,

she usually comes up with some very clever,

 never done before ideas.

We all really liked her design and how she wove it.

Instead of setting up he warp vertically or horizontally,

she warped in a circular way like we did on our dream catchers.

I believe she dyed some yarns in our tye-dye buckets,

but it's what she did with pen & ink on her cover that I really enjoy.

A bit of Zentangling.

Ok,

 are you ready for this one by 8th grader Dylan Lin?

It is an absolutely remarkable creation using the stitched Shibori method we learned.

But instead of going into the Indigo bucket,

he went into the black tye-dye bucket for a super cool effect.

Since the black bucket was loosing it's potency,

instead of showing up solid black,

Dylan manged to get lots of purpely grey values

 which made his stitched bug look even scarier.

We end with para-educator Couch Milan.

First he made a lovely piece of tye-dye cloth,

but it's what he did with the cover that we all respected.

Using an x-acto, 

he cut out a nighttime landscape.

What a great idea!! 

So what started with simple paper weaving 

turned into something incredible with these creative young minds.

Thanks all of you for a really wonderful year.

THE CLOTH RESULTS

TYE DYE CLOTHS FOR APPLIQUILT JOURNALS

BEGINNING 3-D ART

100% cotton pieces & Rit dye

OK,

on to the "real thing".

Once the practice pieces on paper towels have been turned in,

I give each student 2 pieces of cotton cloth.  

A tip:

 I get all my 100% cotton fabric from garage and estate sales in bedding,

and rip the pieces to the size I need.  Saves me hundreds of dollars a year.

Their assignment:

to use their favorite Tye Dye techniques they've discovered in the prelims.,

and use them to create two pieces of cloth that are visually pleasing together.

These will later to used for the outside & inside covers of their Applique Journals.

Let's see how they did.

We start with senior Samantha Tan  & 8th grader Leanne Alcoy.

Both girls have created pieces that will flow together beautifully for their journals.

Next are 8th graders Dana Ahmad & Yusra Azmi.

These girls have chosen the exact same  colors for both pieces but different design techniques 

which also make them look great together.

Junior Jillian Morris & senior Alexis Bilas-Imperial both picked one or two colors from their first one to help  tie together their second one for terrific visual flow.

Here are the pieces that junior Connie Wu & 8th grader Palmer Patel created.

These are so cool,

they remind me of the newest technique on Pinterest,

Ice Dyeing.

These very dramatic & stunning works above were made by senior Sarah Woo & junior Lynette Lee.

And we end with 8th grader Andres Lara,

whose two pieces were so eye-catching I had to show them both in their entirety. 

ANOTHER OOPS, HELP!!!

APPLIQUILT JOURNAL

BEGINNING 3-D ART

I am at a lose as to who made this glorious journal.

I just found this pix the other nite, 

and I'm pretty sure it was made last school year.

So Malia, Syd, Iris X, Ms. Park, Iris L, Charity, Cheryl Mae, Clarissa, Eileen,

HELP!!!

Who does this belong to so I can give them credit??

Look at those incredible journal pages!

Absolutely lovely.

Alumni Hapshiba Kwon thinks this might be the work of senior Karen Long.

TAAA DUHHH!!!

APPLIQUILT JOURNALS

BEGINNING 3-D ART

tye dye cloths, cotton batting, perle cottons, paper & embellishments

I'm finally getting around to posting these incredibly crafted works of art.

I realize now that I should have taken some close ups so you could see the attention to detail.

These children sewed,

 appliqued,

 and beaded/embellished their hearts out,

pouring all their love into these fabric books.

note:  I lost the paper that has all your names on it over the summer,

so if I mis-label a work ,please let me know

Let's start with senior Eileen Wang.

During the first quarter of school the kids went thru a Tye-Dye unit

 to learn to make complex dyed marks on cloth.

Then during 3rd Quarter after having learned sewing and embroidery techniques,

we brought the pieces of dyed cloth back out to applique & embellish,

then turn into a journal.

The kids really got into designing their covers,

as did English teacher Deliana Park.

Deliana spent at least a 100 hours stitching her brains out on this delightful book. 

And then there is junior Helen Park with this adorable piece.

So well planned and executed.

The kids were required to bring in at least one word of text.

8th grader Elliana Lee stitched in a whole saying!

Senior Clarissa Gutierrez fussy cut this cute little fairy to applique onto her front cover.

She also has done some lovely beading and is having fun with those detached chain stitches. 

I so wish this journal by 8th grader Sydney Eng was in better focus.

She worked her behind off embellishing this book. 

Can you see the two bumble bees flying around?

And we end with I'm not sure.

I thought it was Hapshiba but she rang in and said it's not hers

S help me out 8th graders,

taking a guess here,how about 8th grader Iris Lin??

Because I do so much estate and garage sale picking,

 I often come across antique linens and dollies for the students to work with.

Iris??,

 like Sydney above,

 took advantage of some lovely crocheted pieces to incorporate into their journals.

I've been re-evaluating this assignment,

and I saw the kids struggling to start

 because they did't know what to use for subject matter.

And for the past couple of years I have bee so inspired by the ships that 

Hazel Monte at Handstories stitches,

that I think I might limit their subject this year to ships/boats.

Any thoughts on this?

Although I did just purchase the most wonderful Star from Hazel at her shop.

And check out her lovely moon in the shop.

so hard to know what to do.