Prints Gone Wrong...

I had a go at doing some prints on the Disperse Dye Printer.. Not much of a success! Now this is probably down to the quality of my images or not leaving them under the heat press for long enough. I tried out 3 different images, all with the same problems.

Firstly I tried out printing 2 images of flowers onto fabrics. This was to get me used to the printer and to hopefully test out whether the technique would be right for what i wanted to do. Here's those 2 images:

As you can see, I had huge gaps in the fabric where the images just hadn't printed. I thought that really instead of wasting these that it would be a good idea to have a go at embroidery back in what was missing from the print. I thought that this would be a good idea, until I realised how long it would take to get done. I stuck with it though and am pleased with the results..

This then gave me the confidence to have a go at printing my own designs with the printer. I took the image of the large blind drawing that I previously posted about and had a go at printing it.. Again, another failed print.

Disperse Dye Print of Blind Drawing

As you can see, it hasn't come out as I would have liked. This is down to the paper that I originally drew on; as it had a slightly browny colour this has been hard to edit out. Also because of drawing the flowers with face paint has meant that there are gaps in the lines making it hard to be able to select just the flowers. Again, I didn't want to waste this print and so thought I might as well have ago at embroidering back in the flowers. This was even more time consuming than the last as there was a great deal of stopping and starting to try and follow the lines. 

Embellished with Hand Embroidery

Edited to form a Design

Now that I have embroidered back into the print I have been able to form a design ready to have a go at printing, either digitally or again on the Disperse Printer. I want to be able to now have a go at printing some designs digitally and so am going to continue to draw to create images that can be translated into print.