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This shirt took a terribly long time to make,
but I like it. I made a triangular jig with
pencils sticking out of drilled holes, and
pushed the shirt down over the pencils. Each
pencil got a couple of rubber bands to hold
it in place and separate the colors.
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This was supposed to be a sort of geometric
pattern, but instead it looks like dividing
cells or billowing smoke. Oh well.
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I used a couple of two-by-fours to make
boundaries as I squirted ink onto this
shirt.
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A more experimental shirt using squirted
ink. The black was thickened to reduce
blurring. I filled in the diamonds with
squirted ink.
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Another experiment with thickened ink.
Here, I used wooden blocks to make black
marks, then squirted colored paths into
the gaps.
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My first, lucky, experiment with sprayed
ink. Big swaths of yellow and turquoise,
with jars leaving circular holes, then
fuchsia, with lots of jars.
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It's a lot harder to be Jackson Pollock
than you might think.
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A not entirely successful try at overlapping
triangles; the fuchsia came out stronger than
I wanted. Each big triangle is supposed to
be subdivided into 9 much smaller ones.
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The plan here was to lay down stripes from fuchsia
to turquouise that gradually varied between the two
(0:8, 1:7, 2:6, ..., 7:1, 8:0). The mixed colors are
not nearly as vibrant as the pure ones, and it took
two tries (the shirt was dyed twice) to fill all the
gaps.
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The actual name of this pattern escapes me; I tried
it from the directions in a tie-dye book. Notice how
much white is left; that's a general problem with
big shirts and lots of folding.
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Another good shirt, this time using soda straws to center
the spots. The intense fuchsia centers were created/caused
by squirting ink inside the soda straw itself.
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Done entirely with cheap sponges, and the three primary colors
(lemon yellow, fuchsia, turquoise) plus purple.
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A circle of tied dots, then a swirl within that. Gaudy, isn't it?
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