Alyssa Zukas aka Two String Jane is a self-taught artist based in LA. Most of her pieces involves a lot of splash dyed and hand stencilled prints on to clothing but she also explores ways of working with different media such as painting, drawing, jewellery-making, sculpture, photography, interior design and vintage up cycling. Zukas influences come from the everyday simple things and turning them into wearable pop art. Her process is to start of by sketching designs onto paper and then cut out into stencils and the coloured dyes are then splashed or sponged on.
Her other works are just simply plain peices of clothing that have had dye splashed and flicked onto them. The dyes often bleed into one another creating many different colours in one piece. I love all her works I think they a really up to date in fashion, style and she is bringing dyeing back but in a more modern way. The splashed dyed pieces are my favourite though they remind me of doing tie dye as a child and summertime.
Another way that Zukas keeps up to date and modern is having a website that she can sell her pieces that aren't to expensive to buy, she also has a Esty account from which she also sells her works. I would like to try dying fabrics and playing around with tie dying agian and maybe try embroidering patterns on top of the fabric.
