Raven House Project Day 2

Lots to do today!  Yesterday, with the help of my husband, I was able to get the layout for the shirt figured out.  You can see a picture of the rough layout to the right.  I think it is going to look really great.  I chose the font Batik Regular for the quote.  I like the faded look that it has.  My husband liked the large raven.  It is a bit bold.  It kind of reminds me of American Eagle shirts.  My plan is to dye the shirt a medium to dark blue, use a discharge paste to screen on the quote and the swirls, and then redye the shirt a light blue and print the raven in black.  I have never tried using the discharge paste and then redying so I'm going to do a little experimenting today.  I have a lot to do actually.  I need to do at least one dye bath, coat some screens to prep for exposure, and I need to make my image transparencies.  I guess it is time to get to work.

Raven House Project

Wow, it looks like it has been 2 years since my first and only post. I'm going to give this blog another go and see if I can't do a whole lot better than one post every two years. :-)

Today I'm starting work on an exiting new project for Raven House! Raven House is an unofficial no kill shelter that has given a home to many abandoned animals. My friend Tracy at http://strawberryhedgehog.com/ is organizing a bake sale fundraiser on behalf of Raven House. The bake sale will by on July 10th from 11am to 4pm at Loveland Boutique 107 E. Baseline Rd., A-3, SE Mill and Baseline, Tempe. I am contributing some map bags to be auctioned off and she has also commissioned some t-shirts that she would like to sell. Tracy came up with a wonderful design of a raven in flight with some swirlys around it that look like wind currants. My project for today is to figure out how large the image should be and how I want it placed on the shirt. I have printed off some paper copies of the image in various sizes and I'm just going to play around with it a little and see what I like. I guess I had better get to it!