Silk painting techniques tutorials

Silk Painting- other design info

Simple tutorial for silk painting! by Elysium-Sans

Painting on silk is a fun and simple project that anyone can undertake. You only need a few materials and a creative mind! There are a few different techniques for painting silk, including the Serti method and the alcohol and salt method....

Make your own wearable art! Create an abstract geometric pattern on a Jacquard Silk Scarf with Jacquard Dye-na-Flow. Dye-Na-Flow is a free-flowing textile paint made to simulate dye with highly concentrated, translucent colors.

I’ve been playing with a new technique for about a month now…applying Magic Sizing to my silk and using it as a resist. Thanks to Karen Sistek, who developed this technique, and to Fr…

Any of you that paint on silk will be familiar with the alcohol technique. For those of you that don't paint on silk you may be surprised to know that it doesn't mean having a wee dram before starting the project. Alcohol is used to displace the dye to form patterns by painting onto dry unfixed dyed silk. It will only work with dyes, not silk paints, as long as the silk dye has not been fixed. My sequence of pics show the process in stages. 1. After stretching the silk on the frame I painted…

It takes great effort for me to sit and be still. The stillness I refer to is inner quietness. Meditating is something that requires great effort on my part because I am constantly thinking. Sometimes when I mediate it feels like I am walking a crazed dog that is pulling me franticly by the leash. My unquiet mind would be that hyper dog. However, while in India studying Mahayana Buddhism I found myself reaching that stillness. It felt dizzying; like I was sitting in a desk chair and someone…

I've been working (ok, playing) with silk scarf painting the last couple of days. See, I'm part of Celtica!, which is a choir that is associated with the Irish Cultural Center in Phoenix, AZ. The ladies in the choir tend to wear all black for performances, but we decided that a touch of color would be a lovely addition. So I volunteered to dye up a batch of matching silk scarves for us. I ordered my supplies through Dharma Trading Company (http://www.dharmatrading.com/), and they came in the…