Showing posts with label silk painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label silk painting. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Phoenix heat, socks, silk, and night photography

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Yes, it is blasted hot in Phoenix this time of year. The car reading does in fact say 121F. Though I took that a few days ago. Right now it ...
Monday, August 27, 2012

Hand painted silk belly dance veils

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I've been experimenting with painting big pieces of silk, for use as belly dance veils. These have been 45" x 108". The bla...
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Thursday, August 9, 2012

Rock Doodles and silk painting

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Ok, this was more relaxing and more fun that it ought to have been. A smooth river rock + a Sharpie + some spray clear coat = a Rock Doodl...
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Watching the scarf dry: salt method on hand dyed silk scarves

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I've been painting silk scarves for the past few weeks now. First I got an order for 20 grey scarves. I steamed those yesterday, and wil...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Silk prep and drop spindles

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There. My least favorite part of silk painting is done: the initial prep work. After several hours standing at the ironing board, I now hav...
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Friday, June 8, 2012

Hand Painted Silk Ruanas: New product proof-of-concept

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If you'll remember, a while ago I mentioned that I was experimenting with painting silk panels to try to make a ruana out of. I included...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Silk painting with gutta

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I had an opportunity this past weekend to take a class in a different style of silk painting than my usual wet-in-wet salt sprinkled fare. S...
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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Spinning Wheel Deals and Silk Painting

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  "Pssst.....Hey lady! Wanna buy a wheel??" I had to laugh yesterday. See, my daughter has her own place up at college these d...
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