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Thanks, Cris!
It really is alovely painting. I like the edges of the rose - one of my costumers just ordered this kind of rose - yellow with orange edges, and yours is really beautiful!
GORGEOUS!
Hi Chris
As Maria said the photo is rather blurred - do you have a better photo that you could post? It is a lovely painting! Could you explain how you have used the cold wax - have you used it as a resist line or in the traditional batik way pain...
Seems to be a really beautiful painting. . . and it would be so interesting to see the details (cold wax is not a typical technique), but the picture is really small, so it is not easy to see it clearly, at least on my screen : (
This is beautiful! I love your technique.
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- At 4:56pm on October 4, 2009,
Heli Talinurm said…
- Thank you! At the moment I seem to have bit of a problems with gutta, but hopefully it will be solved soon :)
- At 4:54am on October 4, 2009,
Lynn Meek said…
- Hi Chris - would be glad to share this technique with you but I must give credit to Karen Sistek (and Sandra Johnson I believe) - it's pretty much her "invention" and she's shared it with me. First suggestion: try this on a small canvas with a scrap of silk or at least something you're willing to sacrifice if it doesn't turn out perfectly. You'll need a mixture of half liquid matte varnish or matte medium and half water -- easiest if you put it in a squeeze bottle, a very sturdy 3" paint brush (like you would use for house painting), a foam or rubber brayer and a stapler. I position the silk where I want it and staple one or two staples in the middle of each edge on the back of the canvas pulling the silk taut. On the front, you'll work in sections, maybe quadrants depending on the size of the canvas. Squirt a generous puddle of the medium near the center, then using the brush with a good bit of pressure, stroke outward, saturating the silk and working out puckers and bubbles to get it flat - this is NOT easy!! Add more medium if you need it. Work your way around, one section at a time, continually checking for new bubbles or puckers -- You'll wish you had four extra hands!:) I don't worry about the sides until I'm sure the front is flat and smooth -- and at any point, you may have to remove the original staples - you can also use the brayer to smooth the silk and make sure it's completely imbedded in the medium. I've only done this a few times, but I think I let the front dry before working on the sides. After the first coat on the front is dry, I pull the edges very taut and staple them all around the back - the corners are a challenge - fold them however you can - trying to make them smooth and neat -- wrapped like a present or like the canvas is wrapped. I then varnish all the edges and again you may have to remove some staples to tighten the silk and make it smooth - it's all trial and error and whatever works best for you.
If you still have your sanity at this point, let it all dry well, and apply a second coat of the varnish mixture. that's it!! I like the fact that the silk looks as it does wet -- very intense bright colors. This is not a good technique for a subject with straight lines or any straight edges that might be distorted.
Another way to mount the silk is to tear the edges of the silk and mount the silk just on the front of the canvas leaving a perimeter of canvas around the silk that will act like a mat. I prefer wrapping the silk completely around the canvas. Give it a try on a small canvas and let me know how you make out.
Any questions -- just let me know. Good luck!!!!! Lynn
- At 3:47pm on September 18, 2009,
Lynn Meek said…
- Hi Chris - thanks for the nice compliments - I was so pleased with my jungle cats scarf - decided to do one with just animal prints - I just sort of made it up as I went along -- That large dahlia was painted on a 35" square piece of silk and then mounted with varnish on a 30" square canvas. Happy to say this recently took a ribbon at a local art gallery show. Of course, I had to paint a scarf to wear to the artists reception - so painted one with 3 dahlias and offered to include it gratis to anyone buying my painting:)
- At 6:41pm on September 4, 2009,
Dede Regalia said…
- I'll download some pictures (or at least one) next week. I just finished a waterfall and need to steam it and send it to the cleaners to remove the gutta. I wish there was a better way to remove gutta without having to take the trip to the cleaners. I tried putting one silk painting in a jar with solvent once, but the smell made me wonder if that was such a good idea, so I haven't done it since. Getting the solvent smell out of the silk was easy though.
Any suggestions?
- At 4:33pm on May 22, 2009,
Lynn Meek said…
- Thanks Chris - I have a background in watercolor -- I think that's why I just flipped over the silk painting - I love all the textures and designs you get with salt and alcohol (I assume) in your paintings - I need to be more adventurous and try some of those techniques.
- At 7:00am on May 21, 2009,
Christine Sutherland said… - I was asked to teach a few years back and at the time I had already had plans so I couldnt' do it. They have not asked me again to teach. Maybe if you put in a request they may call me up again! I think I could make it this next time around! Would be great. What would you most want me to teach? my techniques? wax resist the way I paint? Let me know if you request me as a teach through SPIN and I will start planning on what to teach! Thanks for your interest in my artwork! Even if I do not teach, I think I should make it happen!
Thanks for the little nudge! ha ha
that's what friends are for!
Smiles from sunny Arizona
Christine
- At 6:06am on May 18, 2009,
Christine Sutherland said…
- hello Chris, Thank you for you very kind commens on my artwork.
Silk in santa Fe? well, I live close enough I should be able to make it. It all depends on affordability for me. I will try to make it and if I do I can't wait to meet everyone! Put the faces to the paintings.
how about you? will you be in santa fe?
Christine
- At 10:30pm on May 17, 2009,
Linda Dunn said… - Chris - You are so sweet! I wish I could transfer that photo from my yard to a silk! LOL Thanks for the comment. Aloha, Linda
- At 6:26pm on April 12, 2009,
Carolyn Elsworthy said… - Thanks for you comments Chris, I have found this website very inspiring and I hope you find the same. I always enjoy trying something new and seeing what others are doing. Carolyn
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