Silk Play Date

So what happens when you get three women together who like to silk paint? We had a Silk Play Date!  We met recently on a freezing day at one friend's house planning to work with some screen transparencies. But our initial plan of letting the sun do the work was quickly forgotten in the 36 degree outside temperatures. But our friend, a long time silk artist, had a clever, homemade light "box" set up for processing transparencies to print onto our silk :-)

The collage below says it all! The long scarf is one where I had already dyed the background a variety of colors...the closeup shows the screening of the vine design I added as another layer to it. I could get used to play dates!

Silk Painting explored

The fun of an Artsy Journey is just that: it's fun! For the past few months I've enjoyed various forms of silk painting with more or less a YouTube education. That in itself is another story, but I have played with some pretty basic tools to the more traditional dyes used by the professionals and have just scratched the surface. I think I know now,  how my painting students who come to me and say "I know nothing about painting" feel. :-)

Special markers on white silk scarves

So anyway I've played with resists, different dyes, washing, ironing...wow more work than a portrait!  You never know what I'll create next-keep watching!

Dyed with abstracts drawn by hand onto the scarf

Stretched, silver resist and hand drawn and painted

Same horses but with background dye added and silk salt for texture

Silk scarf embellished