So here is what came of the pomegranate pot yesterday.. Dyeing and mixing with earth yellow.
The dye primaries, each could be a base, each could be an over-dye
The Neutrals, each can modify the colors. The walnut can also be a base.
2 parts soy milk, 1 part water. A booster.
So by dyeing and over-dyeing what I have with a limited number of materials. All available here. I can get any colors I want, a complete personal spectrum for my work.
And like water color painting, coloring mixing on cloth for me is clearly more about layers. How you see one thing through another.
I have saved and numbered this photo . For reference. # 15 is the tin can blackened version of # 14, which was the pom dipped commercial dyed orange linen I showed yesterday. # 19 was done by dipping # 6 in the indigo vat. #18 is straight red onions skins printed on # 10. # 20 was onion skins printed over #6. #16, red onion skins printed over a dip in the pomegranate/ red onion skin bath that dyed # 13, but it was cotton instead of linen. Quite a mix and match possibility here. I will elaborate on the eco over print ideas next.
I also have not included here, the colors I might have ended up with had I started with white. That expands it more, right?
Another quick commercial dyed strip test. wrapped around a can. I included white this time. I put some new pom skins in this morning, it's quite yellow again.
So in review....
The colors are nice, a range, the methods provide an infinite number of possibilities from what I have...but the system of it helps me make some order out of it. Still never knowing exactly what I will get, but having an idea how to get the full spectrum. This is useful to me, to have an idea, a sense of order about what is happening.
I ask myself, will it make a difference in which order I apply the layers? I think this is it then. How I might build a palette. Of course I can add other dyes and plant materials. Maybe not. But I think I have my head around the methods I might choose to build a personal spectrum. .
I want to start thinking about what I really need to dye. How will I use these colors . What if I stitch up some samplers?