MISSA Days 2 & 3

Day 2 at MISSA in Tony Bounsall's Altered Imagery class was spent doing terrible things to photographs, beginning with soaking them in water to loosen up the emulsion. Then we scratched, sanded, scribbled, brushed, waxed, sprayed and bleached them.
The above image is from day 3 when we were shown how to do gum bichromate printing. This is the wash tank.

We dry our efforts on the clothes line.

A couple of my compositions. Lots of layering gives interesting effects.

Block Printing, India

The fabric,

the blocks,

printing with gum arabic.

Ajarakh Block Printing

Cloth is resist block printed with gum arabic.

Khatri Abduljabbar Mohammad (2003 National Award Winner) is known for his double-sided block printing.