Studio practice PVC

 I wanted to experiment more with some Pvc like material- to see if it would be similar to the dust sheet. It wasn't. it was a lot thicker and didn't layer well when it was heated unless you kind of folded it into itself. It didn't really work in necklace form but when it was flat and had melted a bit it was quite cool.








Wasn't really on board with where this was going so I went to the print work shop to use the screen prints I had made using photos of frame knitting. Printed on sugar paper first - the orange was meant to be metallic copper. 





Then I printed on some of the PVC scarps I had leftover- which turned out beautifully 






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