Saturday, January 28, 2012

Something a bit different

You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.
                                                                                     Jim Rohn

The other day I learned how to paint a silk scarf.  Joan, a fellow artist here in our RV park, held a special class to show about 15 of us how to go about and paint one.  She offered two methods, one where you just put the paint on and let it do it's thing; and the other one, used a liquid (called a resist) to apply to your silk and form a design of your choosing.  After this liquid dried, then we could paint.  Well, I just had to try the second method because it seemed more challenging and I knew I would learn from it.


If you look really close at either of the two photos, you'll see all kinds of goofs that happened with my scarf.  But by trying this, I will know what to do or not do the next time. 


And there will be a next time...I really enjoyed the process and will definitely be painting more of them! 

3 comments:

  1. Goofs or not, that is really pretty.

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  2. How fun! The mistakes don't show at all! At least not that I could see!

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  3. That's a great scarf! Really great colors. I don't see mistakes either; the resist technique is a little harder to control, but looks like you did really well. I'm glad you enjoyed it and will be making more.

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