Here's the beginning of the painting part. If you'll notice, the resist lines prevent paint from flowing where I don't want it to go whereas the magic sizing just gives me more control over how the paint flows in the silk. More as the painting progresses.
Monday, April 13, 2015
This is a new silk in process. I thought I'd share my particular process for paining silk. First I make a line drawing with sharpie marker or other dark, non smearing marker pen. I spread the silk over the drawing, pinning the silk to the drawing in several places. Next I trace the line drawing with a water soluble pencil. Then I remove the silk from the drawing and stretch the silk on a PVC pipe frams and Chinese suspension hooks that look like claws. Next I choose to either spray the silk with Magic Sizing all over or draw along the pencil lines with a water based resist, sometimes, like on this one. I do both. The yellow lines are the resist, I add a bit of color to is so I can see it, although you may use it plain which leaves tiny white lines once it's washed out after heat setting the silk paints.It all depends on the drawing, how I want to paint it & the amount of the detail to be preserved on the silk painting. Once this all dries, it doesn't take very long, less than 30 minutes total, I begin to paint. The photos below show the process up to actually painting. That comes later.
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