Today we just finished painting up the cute sunflower t-shirts, and I just did the dye baths for them.
I want to give you guys an update and an insight. This may help some of my students too, because we've gone through this coloring a issue with blues and yellows before, making this crazy bright green.
Let me show you what I did. I mixed a little Sage green in to my turquoise blue dye. At first I used a hint of Wedgewood blue, but that wasn't doing it. Wedgewood blue wasn't doing what I needed so I just straight-up added a handful of sage. Yes, I said a handful, since I don't necessarily measure my dye.
The color is listed as "Sage" on Dharma Trading Co, and it really it doesn't
matter exactly the color I just needed something to murky up the turquoise so
it wasn't so bright with the lemon yellow.
Lemon yellow and turquoise combined are gonna give you "John Deere green" as one of my batik workshop students called it. It's just gonna give you this super bright green and I'm not aiming for that with these batik sunflower tshirts. I wanted something a little bit more intellectually stimulating, if you will. I don't know why I just feel that if you have greens that are just slightly off-tone, for some reason that
just... I don't know, I just like it better. So this is almost kelly green over lemon yellow which has incredible contrast. Next we're gonna bring it over to the chocolate brown for that sunflower look.
I can just I can tell you right now I know these shirts are gonna look so good. These came out so amazing.
WIN!! Today is a win.
Welcome to my outdoor dye studio and batik workshop. Hope that was informational and inspiring.