MOMENTUM
The 18th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial touring exhibition has these venues coming up in NSW in 2010:
The Silk Painting Workshop on Saturday was a lot of fun, and my students' results were fantastic!
(which appears underneath the presentation) to get started:I love my new handpainted silk bookmarks!
Oh I've had such a fabulous time this past week, drawing and creating my new bookmarks
Each one is a fabulous mini-painting, which I've backed with white to help the truly bright colours show up, and then laminated to protect them. Oh what fun I had!
To view all the other BOOKMARKS, pop over to my website http://abfabdesigns.com/handpAInted-silk-bookmarks.html
Hope you're all having a gorgeous day!
Teena
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A friend of mine is having a baby shower today and I've painted one of my Angel Fish to be framed to hang on the wall of the baby's room.
I've used Habotai silk, and my own homemade black gutta (outliner) made from alginate (seawood) and Procion fiber-reactive dye in black.
The rest of the colours are a mixture of fiber reactive dyes Drimarene K and Procion.
I have a series of cute little animals which I'll share with you soon.
I've also made an Animoto video of the silk bookmarks I've made this week, and include it here for you:
http://animoto.com/play/
And now it's time to laminate some of those bookmarks!
Have a gorgeous day,
Cheers
Teena
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Yum yum!
I painted new silk chiffon scarves this week and have put photos on my website at AbfabDesigns.com - I love new designs! Here's a sneak peek:
The one above is hot pink, orange and yellow tips on the flowers.
They're 21x21 inches / 54x54 cm square, and are perfect for:
My version of Black Gutta
Hi there! Tonight I mixed up a new batch of Drimarene K / Procion fiber-reactive dyes - yum yum - and also I made a new batch of sodium alginate (seaweed) to use as gutta (pronounced "gootah").
I took some photos while I was painting, and I quickly made a mini video which I'll share with you here:
A while back I posted photos of a silk charmeuse cushion I'd been painting, and I've finally got around to taking photos of the finished cover on a cushion - it looks gorgeous (but then - I am kind of biased :-)
The front has a turquoise background, and purple petals - all handpainted by brush using fibre-reactive dyes and the outline I created with white cold wax:
The back of the cushion cover (below) I swapped the colours around and painted the background purple - they both look cool :-)
I particularly like the free-hand feel to the design - no sketch, just a simple flower, then painted it.
Once the design was set (overnight), I washed and sewed the cushion cover, and I'm so pleased with the quality of the silk, and the luscious feel to it - it is marvellous against the skin, and I think I'll paint a few more of these to throw on my sofa and bed.
Hope you like it! I'll be posting more photos soon of the other designs I've been working on.
Ciao for now!
Teena
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It's begun. My painting genie has been reignited and has been painting this past weekend and I'm soooooo happy :-)
Don't forget to click on the photos to zoom in!
I have painted silk charmeuse for a cushion cover in turquoise and purple, as shown below:
Below you can see a close-up of one side of the cushion cover:
And here you can see a close-up of the other side of the cushion cover:
The cushion covers will be available to buy on my website in a range of vibrant colours.
I also handpainted two pieces of silk twill - the photo below shows the 36"/90cm full width, and the piece is actually 45" long.
The photo below shows a second piece of silk twill - also 36"/90cm full width, and 45" long.
This next piece below is a combo of the same fibre-reactive dyes in turquoise, lime green, purple and hot pink. The crinkle cotton fabric is 40" wide and 90" long.
Fabric: silk charmeuse, silk twill, crinkle cotton
Dyes: Drimarene K fiber-reactive
Outlines: Cold wax
I am very pleased with these handpainted textiles I've just created in my new Studio :-)
Woohoo!
Teena
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After my less-than successful wallpaper paste experiment the other day, I decided to give it another try.
Read about Project 2 - wallpaper paste experiment >>
Read about Project 1 - silk dyes, cold wax, wallpaper paste >>
Let's call this PROJECT 3.
My plan the other day was to mix it with fiber-reactive dyes and paint direct, like a dye-thickener.
This time I had the bright idea to use a lot LESS wallpaper paste powder, and simply paint that onto the silk.
This is known as 'antifusant' - a French word - and basically means that when the silk has been painted with a solution like this, and allowed to dry, it becomes crisp like paper so you can paint on it without the dyes spreading like they normally do. Some people like to create paintings this way,, others simply cover parts of the silk with an antifusant, to block out certain areas.
In a plastic cup I put approx 5% of a teaspoon (20-30 grains) into a half cup of water and stirred. Took a while for the grain to dissolve, so I left it about 15-20 minutes then stirred a bit more.
Above: Wallpaper paste sachet, "polypaper" brand, cost about $A3.00.
Above: using a hairdryer to dry the wallpaper paste after it is painted onto the silk.
Above: the antifused area is the top part of this photo. As you can see, there is no clear difference between the dye painted onto the antifused surface, and the normal silk.
Above: In this photo, you can see the wet antifused area (I have written "double dose" to the right".
I haven't been to North Sydney Markets for quite a few years, so it was great to have a reason to go.
Beautiful sunny day, I got there about 9am with my friend Nina, and we moseyed around all the stalls before it got too hot.
The Batik Oetoro stall was at the back, in full sun, and it reminded me of when I used to sell my art at this market years ago. Being on the cement in full sun was eventually the reason I stopped having a stall - 9:00am to 4:00pm in the summer's heat was unbearable for me, even with a canopy.
Still, Lynne comes to the market once a month (second Sunday of the month) to keep in touch with the Sydney clients of Batik Oetoro, to deliver orders etc, and it works well.
I was pleased to collect my goodies, and can't wait wait to test the thickener Sodium Alginate (also called MANUTEX RS) with my fibre-reactive dyes, and also the DR33 Guar Gum with my French silk dyes.
Once I've tested these products I'll know whether or not they're what I'm looking for in my elusive search for just the right style in my silk painting adventure which started in 1980 in Paris, France :-)
Have a good one!
Teena
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PROJECT #2 - SILK DYE WITH WALLPAPER PASTE
Above: For this project I wanted to experiment with wallpaper paste as a thickener for silk dyes. The wallpaper paste is the little yellow packet shown above, I bought it at the hardware store for about $3.00. I first mixed up about a quarter of a teaspoon of wallpaper paste in a plastic cup. Once stirred it became thick and gelatinous.
In an icecube tray I added about a teaspoon of this mixture into one icecube, then dropped on one drop of pink silk dye.
I decided to use my Frenchgirl, change her hair, and leave the balloon out.
I started the painting by outlining the face, hair and beret with clear (white) cold wax.
When I tried the first colour, it was weird to paint with this thick gluggy substance. It was lumpy and didn't look good at all. I mixed up a couple of other colours and tried those out. What I ended up with was the silk shown below.
When the thickened dye mix was brushed onto the silk, it was like painting with something akin to baby food, I guess - rather an unusual experience :-)
At this point I really didn't expect to end up with a silk painting worth keeping.
Above: Well this certainly doesn't look very attractive, does it?
The poor Frenchgirl looks like she's been left in the sun too long!
Her pink face is blotchy and thick and very weird, don't you think?
On the blue dye used for the coat, I added swirls of purple while the dye was still wet, so they merged nicely together.
I left the silk to dry.
Above: When the silk was dry - and it didn't take too long - I used the black marker to outline the whole painting. I've always loved this look. Ahhhhh now she's looking a lot better than before :-)
Above: Here you can see my original sketch and the current silk painting side-by-side.
Above: You can see the icecube tray with the coloured dyes mixed in.
The silk is still stretched taut as there wasn't enough wet dye to weigh it down.
Above: I painted a cold wax outline outside the black border with a normal sized paintbrush; you can see thinner wax lines on the shoulder in the left bottom corner where I used a thin paintbrush.
Main Background: When the cold wax dried I painted the purple background - there was no paste in this dye, and it spread across the silk beautifully. In the photo above the purple background is DARK because the silk dye is still wet. The purple of the beret is exactly the same, except it is mixed with wallpaper paste and has dried to a lighter shade.
Inner Background: Next I painted the pink background - again, there was no paste mixed with the pink dye, and it flowed easily on the silk habotai.
Setting the colours
While the silk background was still wet, I rolled it in a dark garbage bag (trash can liner) and left it overnight. The fiber-reactive dyes will continue to work on the silk until they are dry.
The next morning I unwrapped the plastic and the silk had dried.
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