bright pink *what*?!

[hedgiewan]

I've been having one of those forgetful days... I went downstairs this morning, only to have to go back to my room three times for things I forgot. Then I left the house, found out that my S10's battery was dead, went back upstairs to get the USB adapter so I could charge it at work, left again, realized that I'd left my awesome lunch on the counter...

On the up side, having to go back twice meant that, by the time I got to the train tracks between Hiawatha and Minnehaha, the train was just finishing backing up.

Then I forgot where the ice machine was, then forgot that I needed a key for the freezer that's 4 floors down, then forgot that the standards were in that freezer, too, and ended up going up and down a total of about 15 flights of stairs. Good excercise, but boy is it too hot in this building for such things.

Tonight is for knitting, though, which is all muscle memory, so I should be OK.

This week is for the craziest round-the-clock experiment ever. No going out on Friday night for me, because I have to come in to work on Saturday at 1am!

Also, I put on a shirt this morning that I forgot I'd spilled bleach on. It's a brown shirt, though, and the bleach spots turned an awesome bright pink, so I think I'm going to "save" the shirt by making them look intentional. I need to figure out the best way to apply liquid bleach with some measure of control. Maybe a wash bottle like we have in the lab? Kind of dribbly is fine, but I want to be able to make sketches with it. Maybe I'll draw a tapir... tapirs are cool. Bright pink tapirs are even cooler.

the hedge abides.

Comments

[pants-of-doom.livejournal.com]

I have a bleach pen. I got it at the grocery store. I bet you could get one too.

[hedgiewan.livejournal.com]

I actually want something splattery. Are those like felt-tip pens?

[pants-of-doom.livejournal.com]

Yeah, pretty much - they're designed to get out small stains on the white parts of shirts without messing up the rest of the shirt. And they work for that.

[magicmarmot.livejournal.com]

For the bleach, I'd try a calligraphy pen. Much finer control over how much you lay down. Also there is a difference between a dry shirt and wet shirt. It will probably kill the pen, but the control is nice. A syringe will work too, but it's more awkward.

And of course, remember that bleach takes a few seconds to "develop".

Something I haven't tried with bleach is masking it with a stencil or wax like a batik. That could be really cool, like tie-dyeing but in reverse.

[hedgiewan.livejournal.com]

I was kind of thinking of putting some bleach (possibly diluted) in a spray bottle, and using it around the edges of a stencil.

Like I said to PoD, though, I want the splattery look. A syringe might work, but I think even a dip pen may be *too* good of control.