Having fun with Handpainted Sandwashed Silk

I thought you might like to see some photos of silk I've been painting - all sandwashed silk, so thicker than habotai, it's very thirsty and soaks up a LOT of dye :-)

Above: Turquoise, Purple, Magenta and Orange French dyes with a dash of green.
This closeup shows about 18x18inches, or 45x45cm.

Above: The silk was so vibrant as I painted it!!

This piece is about 20x40inches / 50x100cm.

I also painted a sample piece of sandwashed silk with some fun 3-stripe patterns and came up with this lovely little fiesta of colour below:

Ahhhhhhh it's sooo much fun to paint on silk :-)

Ciao for now

Teena!