I'm looking forward to being back in class. I have missed all of you this summer.
I started rummaging through my left overs, failures, and bits and pieces and there I found a silk piece I had worked on as a demo piece. It had leaves on it so I cut out some of the leaves and then I found more leafy like fabric in the stash and started laying them out. It will work! I also found a piece of silk upon which I had done a bit of shibori It was an ugly color and I had discarded it into the scrap box.
I pulled it out, ironed it and drew a Japanese man in gutta onto the side with the least shibori then I painted it in with Seta Silk paint. to glance him I put in a tree.
The piece was then glued to a purchased stretched canvas with Acrylic Medium and glazed with acrylic matte varnish. It is a really cool way to turn a silk painting into a wall piece. This needs further exploration. I love the under pattern and will look for more things to paint over. Since everything is transparent it lets the under painting show through giving continuity to the whole.
I have to send in information for my next class offering. Maybe Intermediate to Advanced silk painting techniques would be fun to pursue in a more Open Studio style. Give me your thoughts.
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