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Beginning Silk Painting

Come and learn how to use Gutta resist to divide spaces, then fill those spaces will brilliant colors.  This workshop is a bit different, for your Workshop Chair needs to order the silk dyeing supplies, which you get to keep, and which will make many more scarves, pillows, and silk pieces.  This is a beginners' class, where you learn to transfer patterns, mix colors, and make your dyes permanent.  The blouse at the right is the second thing I ever silk painted, and I love it still.

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Silk Painting Workshop

Come and learn a fast, easy, permanent way to paint on silk!  Lovely colors are used in a watercolor fashion to create flowers, birds, and colorful blends suitable for blouses, scarves, pillows, and much more!

The Jacquard silk painting kit comes with the basic colors, brush, gutta resist, and instruction book.  It is enough to do several pieces, plus the workshop experimental pieces.  You will also receive two pieces of silk to paint on during class. Materials fee of $10 for two weights of silk, patterns & handout to teacher; payment for Jacquard silk painting kit to your Program Chair at time of registration.  The kit is easily accessible at http://www.dharmatrading.com/dyes/jacquard-silk-colors-green-label.html?lnav=dyes.html   We use the green label Jacquard silk dyes because they do not have to be steam set, just rinsed in a solution.  

Stuff you need to bring (yes, really!):

  •             two large embroidery or quilting hoops, 12-14” diameter - (the el-cheapo kind you can get stained)
  •             three glass eye droppers (available at pharmacies)
  •             two white ice cube trays, the kind with lots of little compartments is better than just a few big compartments.  This is for mixing your colors in.
  •             jar to hold your brush
  •             jar to hold water
  •             plastic to cover your workspace
  •             wear old clothes
  •             paper towels (5-10)
  •             portable light table if you have one
  •             Portable hair dryer (optional)

Here are samples from the class.  You get to choose from about 20 different patterns.

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Iris
This is a blouse I painted on China silk, using the Iris pattern in the circle above.  It was great fun, and I made it in a weekend.  Similarly, you could use these patterns to make pillows, scarves, and other silk creations.
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Cyclamen
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Whale
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You won't make this in class, but it's a sample of what you can do on a purchased blank scarf.
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Water lilies

Here is a scarf with water lilies on it, I've also done a whale scarf, which was just a blast.
There is vitality, a life-force, a quickening that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through another medium. It will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is…It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. - Martha Graham

"We can do no great things, only small things with great love."  - Mother Theresa

"When the eye, the hand, and the heart come together, that's when you get the greatest art." - David Hockney
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