On the left hand side of the picture is my developmental process; I knew that I wanted to have a print of the leaves somehow but the prints I was doing at the time did not look like real leaves, they looked like prints so I kept sampling and developing my ideas. Finally, after many days in the print room I decided to try something different and took all my leaves I had collected through them on the photocopying machine and scanned them in. By doing this I was able to achieve a natural layout of the leaves and the negative space inbetween. This specific layout above triggered and idea. So I made a sample palette of fabric inks and their colours to see which colours would work best on the fabric and which colours would compliment each other the best and began to create prints using the heat press machine.
Above is the beginning process of heat-pressing onto fabric using fabric inks. I liked the effect I was getting but the process was taking too long to do one leaf and it was also not neat enough in my opinion. I continued to try and work with this process but ultimately ended up trying different methods that would give me a similiar effect but in a quicker time and neater finish.
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