Silk Painting without gutta
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smallhobbitYesterday's Dare to Dabble session was Silk Painting Without Gutta. Gutta is the substance which prevents one colour of paint blending into another. Essential, this was a painting class - and I am no painter. Maybe, with practise, I could improve, but there a lot of techniques I need to learn first.
Anyway, we began with lots of small pots of paints, paintbrushes and two pots of salt - one with small grains, one with larger crystals. And some prepared silk canvas stretched over a frame.
Most people simply painted on the silk. If you don't pre-wet the silk the paint behaves like normal paint. I was more interested in the idea of the colours spreading together, so I started off by painting water onto the canvas. After which I painted some blue sky.
My plan was to have various autumnal spots underneath, and this is how I began, with dropping spots of colour from my paintbrush.
I added a third, which was supposed to be a bush with fruit on it. As you can see, the yellow and orange dots on the right hand side had completely disappeared, and I spent a lot of time adding to them.
By now, I realised that it really wasn't turning out like anything discernable, so I joined up the separate bushes, to create and autumnal hedgerow.
This is the final result. We're going to fake Jackson Pollock's signature and make a fortune from it!
It was an interesting experiment. I don't know what those who simply painted made of working on a different material, but for me it was something I'd never have tried otherwise, and it's always fun doing something different.
Anyway, we began with lots of small pots of paints, paintbrushes and two pots of salt - one with small grains, one with larger crystals. And some prepared silk canvas stretched over a frame.
Most people simply painted on the silk. If you don't pre-wet the silk the paint behaves like normal paint. I was more interested in the idea of the colours spreading together, so I started off by painting water onto the canvas. After which I painted some blue sky.
My plan was to have various autumnal spots underneath, and this is how I began, with dropping spots of colour from my paintbrush.
I added a third, which was supposed to be a bush with fruit on it. As you can see, the yellow and orange dots on the right hand side had completely disappeared, and I spent a lot of time adding to them.
By now, I realised that it really wasn't turning out like anything discernable, so I joined up the separate bushes, to create and autumnal hedgerow.
This is the final result. We're going to fake Jackson Pollock's signature and make a fortune from it!
It was an interesting experiment. I don't know what those who simply painted made of working on a different material, but for me it was something I'd never have tried otherwise, and it's always fun doing something different.
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