Monday, 15 April 2013

Tie-dye sky…

Sometimes the sky looks like that tie-dyed granddad shirt I made when I was a teenager. I loved that shirt, it was very groovy and I had such fun making it. It was a two bucket job; half in the purple bucket, half in the orange bucket and then a quick suspension with string and a stick in the purple bucket again to get a bright orange band in the middle. I looked so cool wearing it – no I really did. But then it’s easy to look cool at seventeen even if you do have purple and orange dyed hands.


9 comments:

  1. Alan Shorrock on FB
    I tie-dyed a grandad once... He wasn't happy.

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  2. Vicky Sutcliffe on FB
    Grandad shirts are still the shirt of choice.... But tie dye ......nooooo!

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    1. Andrew Height
      Ah Vicky, you miss the point that tie dye makes.

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  3. Andrew Height
    Ah Vicky, you miss the point that tie dye makes.

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  4. Vicky Sutcliffe
    Clearly x

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  5. Andrew Height
    It is a random design expression made from string and the whim of the universe. When it is right it is very right, when it is wrong it is a splodge of nothing. A bit like the sunset really.

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  6. David Bell on FB
    Memories of my time at Art College. Tie dying was a fine art. The expectation of the final result can only be compared to developing a print in the darkroom.

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    1. Andrew Height
      Hear, hear David. Brilliantly put.

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