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Silk Scarves for Valentine’s Day
This time next week it will be Valentine’s Day. I do have a couple of red scarves on my online shop at the moment, but they don’t feel classically romantic to me. They’re too bright and, too, well, red. Thinking … Continue reading
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Tagged fashion photography, fuchsia pink, hand painted, luxury gift, mature style, pink silk, romance, scarves, silk scarves, Valentine's, Valentine's Day
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I have been layering again
You may or may not recall that last year I was inspired to work with some Tudor motifs following my visit to the splendid exhibition ‘Wolsey’s Angels‘ held at Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich. I was particularly taken with an oak … Continue reading
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Tagged creative process, hand painted, inspiration, layering, motif, silk painting, silk scarves, Tudor pheasant
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Another in the Edlyn series
I can’t always put my finger on why I choose certain colours for a scarf, but after painting three muted scarves in the Edlyn series, I felt the need for something a touch more brash. After drawing out the basic … Continue reading
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Tagged chartreuse green, creative process, flat crepe, fuchsia pink, silk, silk painting, silk scarves, work in progress
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St Edmund’s, Southwold. Revisiting Rood Screens Suffolk V – Working from ‘David with harp’
Here is another of my Edlyn series. Working with the same design, but this time choosing colours from another panel. I rather liked the melancholy of the ‘David with harp’ panel and I thought the blues, the very pale grey, and … Continue reading
An Experiment with the Microwave
Recently, I have been reading about the traditional Japanese skill of Shibori. You’ve probably seen examples around as it has become very popular. Shibori is a dyeing method that involves folding and binding plain, undyed cloth and then submerging the knotted … Continue reading
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Tagged acid dyes, experiment, microwave, painting silk, pleating, resist dyeing, Shibori, silk, silk scarf
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Layering – Part III – Darker Backgrounds
In the third and final part of my series about painting layers on silk I have turned my attention to the challenges of starting with darker backgrounds. This is a design that I have painted in more than one colourway. … Continue reading
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Tagged acid dyes, creative process, layers, painting, silk painting, silk twill, steaming
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Layering – Part II
In a recent post I uploaded photographs of the layering process. I used green dyes for the new top layer on a square silk twill scarf. Here, is another combination of colours on the same original coloured background, but this time on … Continue reading
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Tagged creative process, hand painted, inspiration, layering, one offs, silk painting, silk scarf, silk scarves, textile design, updating, wearable art
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Layering – Part I
It is time for changing two or three older pieces of work that haven’t sold. I am happy to say that overpainting previously painted and steamed silk can give some very pleasing results. Here a (boring) pale cream, lilac and … Continue reading
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Tagged creative process, hand painted, inspiration, layering, one offs, silk painting, silk scarf, silk scarves, textile design, updating, wearable art
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Hand-painted, really?
This is not what I was going to blog about today, but I need to have a little, or not so little moan. This is how my morning started. Firstly, I received an email from a company asking me if … Continue reading
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Tagged design, digital design, hand drawn, hand painted, one offs, silk painting, silk scarf, silk scarves, textile design
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