The #100dayproject
My Project for this year - 100 days of nature print
Last year I join, for the first time, the 100 days project.
It’s a project where we create, during 100 days something related with a theme. We choose the theme and then play along the days.
Last year I decided to pick 100 little scraps of paper that were already with some paint and marks and I altered them each day, creating at the end a beautiful collection of art scraps.
As you can see if you follow me and my work I love nature. The colors, shapes, lines present in the nature elements inspire me so much and I bring them to my work
Since more than a year, I’ve been exploring the processes of eco printing and eco dying. I’ve been so in love with the techniques and the results that I have that this year I decided to jump again in this big project and share what I’ve been achieving with my explorations.
What is Eco Print?
Eco Print combines several techniques that will bring nature prints into a surface, like papers or fabrics.
It can be complex and it needs some knowledge. However, learning the basics and with some very easily found things we can reach to stunning pieces.
In it’s essence the techniques are based on the principle that plants have pigments and some of them are easy to stick on the paper or fabric. That pigments can be fixed to that substrates with the help of other molecules that we find in some plants or in other nature elements and boiling all the elements in water.
Is not my intention to bring today a post about the techniques involved in eco print. Instead I wante to share with you a flip through on my first days on this project. I have been sharing on Instagram some very beautiful prints, that I come up using different techniques.
100 days of nature print
Overview of the first days
