New techniques

 This session we have been making samples of new techniques.  This is the one I taught last Wednesday.  It is very effective and I love the results.  First the Design of leaves was drawn onto the silk with a Pilot FriXion Pen.  These pens are so great; because they do not go away with water, but they do erase completely with heat.  Once the design was in place the silk was stretched  onto a frame and then sprayed with water from a spray bottle the background colors were brushed on and let run down the silk.  because the design was already there I could select area to place the colors.  In this example the colors in the background are quite intense.

 After the background was dry I applied the gutta.  I used clear and that is where the magic comes in; because I was using "Seta Silk" and Dyna Flo" Silk paints the background was stable so when I painted over it it did not bleed.  When the painting was finished I heat set it with and iron and washed the gutta out.  Look at the leaves outside edges.  You don't see any white gutta lines because the background is what shows and because it was under neath the top painting there are no gaps of gutta at the outside edges.  There is a gutta line in the inside details.   Pretty cool!

This bird was done with black gutta which was the clear colored with black Dyna-Flo.  When it was heat set and washed the lines stayed really black.
We won;t be meeting next week Oct.7 as I will be off babysitting, but when we are back on Oct 14 we will talk about finishing and ways to display our work.  Everyone did great on the white flowers last time.  I should have taken photos.  Sorry.