A detour journey for a portrait artist into the textile world of silk is not as extreme as it may sound. I mean it is still drawing and painting after all. I am stretching silk-I stretch canvas. I am playing with colors to see what works and what does not-that never really changes. Even after years of painting portraits where by now I obviously have my favorite combinations of skin tone colors, sky colors, etc, that is still subject to change! (I do have to watch my tendency to drift towards portraiture in silk painting though.)
What I AM certain of is that as I do more, I am liking my newer silk paintings ones more than my first ones! And I am also wanting to expand from the confines of a scarf (8 x 54, 8 x 72, 14 x 72, etc) into...I don't know squares and such. So having said all that, below are a few of the more recent examples along with some images of my high tech PVC stretching frame that my husband and I put together!
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| From earlier post. Painting horses |
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| background colors added, salt sprinkled |
I am still out on sprinkling salt on the background for a starburst effect-it has not happened quite like I thought it would (as watercolor paper would react) so having tried it on 2 different dyes...well, we will see!
Onward:
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| Horses added after I dyed the colors |
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| closeup of embellishments |
All of these are on the stretcher bars. The next blog will show the PVC frame and larger scarves. (these are 8" x 54").
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| On the Model! |
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