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.