My latest dye - Asian themed

[djext1]

Ok, so I put together a spin dye machine out of an old box fan. After a few trials to get the hang of it, I started using brushes and other things to achieve different effects with the spinning process. My favorite is a blend of the brushes and normal spin dye spreading.

I like the asian, almost pottery look. So taking that, I used my Katana as my first official work of "art". I look forward to doing many more like this and focusing on this style with different colors and images.

The lettering by the way means "Katana Number One"...

 

[zenbot]

I like it a lot. I have a few J-dyes from Hero discs that are similar.

 

[zenbot]

I have this very one on my wall at home.

 

[Animage]

I want that disc right now. I would hate to throw it though. Lovely.

 

[djext1]

Yeah, the J-Dye stuff was the inspiration for it. I really liked the way most of those discs looked and wanted to try and make some along those lines.

 

[zenbot]

You did a great job. How did you get it to look like the disc is glazed?

 

[hippiediscdude]

That turned out really sweet dude! I love the work on the rim it looks random and textured but uniform. The colors work really together as well. Really unique dye! Good stuff!

 

[MarkS]

Very awesome! It wants to be thrown, in my opinion.

 

[Jukeshoe]

Nice work!

 

[fixed1313]

Wow, looks great............been playing with the spin dye thing too but have not come up with anytning like that yet. How did you do the texturing?

 

[djext1]

The center is just using a small paint brush for brush stroke effect and gradients, the "dots" that spread out in the orange part actually I think are just a byproduct of the liquid detergent I used. For some reason it was sort of clotting up a bit, but in a good way. For the rim I just did a quick solid drip circle of two colors while it was slowly spinning, then I sped it up for just a second to get the colors to run a bit at the edge and stopped it with my hand.

I'm going to try some color blending with the brush strokes while it's spinning next I think, and then maybe use something like a small piece of screen that is cut to drag some heavy lines in the dye.... I dunno, there's a lot you can do for different texture effects

 

[fixed1313]

Thanks for the info............I will have to play around a bit.