Textile Design Lab's Summer of Creativity: Editing a Texture

Look!
This:

Came from this:

Lesson Two was a quickie editing technique for textures that ended up working out well on my 2nd try.

1) Added "Content Aware" fills by making a selection, Select > Inverse, hit Delete (choosing Content Aware)
1A) a misfire -- cropping area has too much white edge

[from here on, a reenactment] 

1B, Red shows a tighter selection, better all-over fill 

2) Cropped to an area that I liked (this art not in repeat)

Next, I'll show crops of the transformations without the step-by-step directions.
Maintaining a bit of mystery, since it's not a free course.

 Oops, reenactment doesn't match. Oh well -- glad that I saved the original!

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Linking up with Shelbee's On the Edge of the Week

It's a Dot Party!

I'm trying two new things.

Started with my Tropical Preppy color palette,
it got a bit off when filtered through the App.

First, the dot repeat above was processed through the iOS App called Waterlogue.
It's my first pass with it (as far as Surface Design goes) and I'm still figuring out ways to use it.
So much fun!

Second, I run a weekly link-up party over on SpyGirl, my fashion blog.
Since this week's theme is DOTS, I'm experimenting with running the party in two places and with blogging friends!

Got Dots? Please add your link below [starting 2/5, 5:30am PST]

60s Paisley Patterns

Society6 has added mugs to their roster of custom printed items.
What a perfect substrate for patterns!

my 60s mug

I originally created this print for an art show in July.

also available as an art print

I then had it printed on tights (blogged here).

I created it by digitally compositing three 60s prints, one of which you see in the shirt above.

Maybe I should add the three prints separately so one could get a set of four mugs?

dots project finished

Here is my final iteration of the "what if" dots. It goes out to ArtHouse today. It'll be on display in Brooklyn on June 25th.

what if the background texture is different?

what if I used the dark dots reversed out to white over the texture?

(next 2-27) what if I had another layer of white dots at a smaller scale?

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(2-27) what if I used the dark dots reversed out to white over the texture?

what if I took a section of the dots (the 12 dark ones) and made a repeat from that?

(next 2-26) what if I took the dark dots and made a 1/2 drop?(2-26) what if I took a section of the dots (the 12 dark ones) and made a repeat from that?
nine worked better

booklet from reject print

here it is piled on top of test prints for next project

I printed black scribbles on inside and hand wrote some extra "legible" text
I'm going to get a polymer plate made of "inside" and put it through letterpress for class
the impression from letterpress will be a nice extra
think I'll put it through the press twice so I can keep this size for book (I'm making a 8.5 x 11 plate) Experimented with folding a letter size sheet and book too too small.

countdown to deadline -- anything to frame must be finished and delivered today

Two prints to finish... or maybe just one... or is it two...


This newest one cries out to be a banner shape -- I'm going to keep the 19" width and have this sort of thing repeat for 72" Then it'll be friends with "Screen" (which was my intention for this one)


I won't be framing this so I only have to worry about getting it to a service bureau in time for the printing

Below is one of the old prints that I scanned to create the above digital. Trimmings and reject prints from its series were used to create Screen

"Veils #16" silkscreen monoprint, 18 x 10.5"

another new one

This one printed out much darker and duller than how it looks on the monitor (THAT problem) so I need to tweak the image
or maybe I'll go into the print with handwork
haven't decided

It's a combo of scanned dip pen marks (both used on previous 2 prints)
I like the way it looks like handwriting but doesn't say anything

(And, perhaps this is sad, I see these marks could work well on a panty print... gotta come up with new designs for Costco US and, well... here they are... hmmm, maybe I could count an hour or so as "offsite" time and get paid haha).

done (I think)

Inked #2 13 x 19" Digital Monoprint

restart

this one is a good start gone bad...

I was happily feeding this through the printer, one layer at a time, letting chance create the layered composition and then I decided it needed some new different marks...
I drew some with litho crayon, scanned, made a repeat and put it through the printer again
well
I forgot to specify the printer when adjusting the paper size and it printed the wrong way (plus I don't like the scale of the marks -- too big) doh!

I liked this print a lot until the last pass, and decided to replicate the process
THIS TIME I used layers in photoshop to fine tune the blending:
still not quite finished, but getting close

something new

"Inked" digital monoprint, 13 x 19"

something new (phase 1)

here is the first printing of the new digital piece

it seems to "beg" for some red marks that also have the "inky" look
after attempting some digital solutions that for various technical issues wouldn't fly (wrong OS for tablet on this machine, can't find Painter software CD to install on laptop with correct OS, etc etc), I went ANALOG.
found my tin of Grandfather's dip pens, found the jar of ink, made some marks and now I've gotta wait for the ink to dry so I can scan... to be continued...