It's not Eco-dyed, it's Tie-dyed!

Here's an insider picture that you wouldn't normally see. During the time I was exploring and playing with Nancy Dawe's Eco-dyed papers for the Eco-dyed Tangling lesson, I had to figure out a way to create a similar type of paper for students so that they were not forced to buy a specialty item. During my exploration, I ran into a happy accident: tie-dyed papers. I crumpled a piece of watercolor paper and dipped it into watercolors, and then ironed it out after dry. Looks like tie-dye!!!!

Wasn't exactly what I was looking for at the time, so I set the papers aside to work on them at a later time. Recently I picked up one of them again and used the same techniques I used in the Eco-dyed paper, and really enjoyed the process:

Here's a step-out of how the drawing was developed, in a very similar way to the eco-dyed tangling process:

And here is a close-up of the picture once again. You can see that the results are a lot rougher and distressed than the pictures formed eco-dyed papers and even with distressed papers, but it doesn't bother me much, I like it!

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