Description
Supply List
Sun Printing
- Transparent acrylic inks or transparent acrylic paints
- Solid white or off-white cotton fabric, cut into fat quarters (approx. 18” x 20”), prewashed
- Foam board a little bigger than a fat quarter (20” x 24” is perfect)
- Plastic drop-cloth cut into pieces the size of the foam board
- Plastic deli container cups
- Foam brushes – 1”-3” widths
- Spray mister bottle
- Items to use as masks: leaves, doilies, paper cut outs, stencils, found objects, anything opaque or mostly opaque
- Coarse salt
- Optional: bridal tulle and bamboo skewers
- Optional: clamp-on lamp and heat lamp lightbulb
Leaf Printing
- Transparent or opaque acrylic paints
- Assortment of printed and solid fabrics, prewashed
- Old phone book
- White tissue paper cut into pieces about 8” x 10” in size
- Plastic or palette paper to protect your work surface
- Foam brushes – 1”-3” widths
- Paintbrushes – an assortment of small sizes (½”- 1½”)
- Leaves (look for leaves with interesting edges and veins, large or small)
- Newsprint and a heavy book or weight to press leaves if you won’t be printing them right away
- Optional: fake leaves, coloring agents like Neocolor Watersoluble Wax Pastels or Inktense pencils
Produce Printing
- Transparent or opaque acrylic paints
- Assortment of printed and solid fabrics, prewashed
- Paper towels
- Sharp knife and cutting board
- Plastic or palette paper to protect your work surface
- Padded surface like an old mouse pad or a layer of batting
- Foam brushes – 1”-3” widths
- Paintbrushes – an assortment of small sizes (½”- 1½”)
- Produce: look for interesting shapes and sizes
- Optional: coloring agents like Neocolor Watersoluble Wax Pastels or Inktense pencils
Fish Printing
- Transparent or opaque acrylic paints, metallic paint can be fun here!
- Black and white opaque acrylic paint for eyes
- Assortment of printed and solid fabrics, prewashed
- Paper towels
- Small foam brayer and tray
- Small paintbrushes (rounds and flats from 00-4)
- Palette paper or plastic for inking and printing areas
- Rubber gyotaku fish (sources include dickblick.com and enasco.com online)
- Nail brush or mushroom brush to clean fish after printing
- Optional: coloring agents like Neocolor Watersoluble Wax Pastels or Inktense pencils
3D Object Printing
- Oil paint sticks and/or wax pastels and/or colored pencils
- Assortment of printed and solid fabrics, prewashed
- 3D objects like seashells, thick leaves, bark, stones, etc
- Optional: polymer clay and/or tape to hold objects in place while printing
- Optional: gelatin plate for printing monoprints
- UV Reactive-Dye Printing
- Jacquard SolarFast or Lumi Inkodye UV reactive dyes
- Prewashed solid white fabric
- Opaque items to use as masks, like lace, keys, washers, shapes cut from paper, etc
- Plastic to protect working surface
- Foam brushes – 1”-2” widths
- Kitchen timer (or app on smart phone)
- Cardboard or foam board to carry painted fabric into sunlight
- Dish soap or SolarFast Wash
- SolarFast Inkjet Sheets
- Digital image converted to a negative
- Inkjet printer
- Access to hot water
- Optional: glass or plexi-glass, approx 9” x 12”
- Optional: clamp-on lamp and UV light (aka “lizard/reptile” bulb)
Instructor:
ABOUT JANE DAVILA
Jane Davila is a fiber and mixed-media artist who began her professional art career as a printmaker, specializing in etchings and intaglios. Her prints can be found in many private and corporate collections around the world, including the Lila Acheson Wallace Collection. She switched to fiber, mixed media, and art quilting in the 1990s but still incorporates many printmaking techniques, such as screen printing, block printing, gyotaku, and thermofax printing, in her work.
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