For this week’s project, I decided to use thermochromic ink to play with the idea of season changes.

My idea is to have the red layer (fall) under the green layer (summer). So I started by painting the bottom layer.

Then I tried to mix the yellow and blue pigment with the transparent base to make a green transparent layer, but the paint ended up being too thick and gooey to manipulate well. Also, it took a long time to dry… After researching a bit I realized that it would take about 2-3 days to completely dry. (Also, it looks really gross after it dries)

In the interest of time, I decided to scratch this idea and decided to add the green in another way.

Because the fall season also had yellow leaves, I mixed blue pigments with yellow to make green and added that onto the red background. So when the green parts hit the hit, it would become yellow.

Initially, I wanted the change to be entirely from green (summer) to red (fall), but I had a lot of difficulties to make the head go through the thick fabric + paint. So I ended up using a heat shrink to heat up the paint.