Painting Flowers on Silk

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2000
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A series of projects with complete step-by-step photographs show how to capture the beauty and translucency of orchids, daffodils, tulips, irises and poppies. The techniques are many and varied - they include using outliners and wax, blending colours, overpainting, painting on to dry and damp silk, painting with broken colour, etching on silk velvet and discharging. The glorious pictures will inspire all those interested in silk painting and textiles to explore the versatility and breadth of this exciting medium.

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A series of projects with complete step-by-step photographs show how to capture the beauty and translucency of orchids, daffodils, tulips, irises and poppies. The techniques are many and varied - they include using outliners and wax, blending colours, overpainting, painting on to dry and damp silk, painting with broken colour, etching on silk velvet and discharging. The glorious pictures will inspire all those interested in silk painting and textiles to explore the versatility and breadth of this exciting medium.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Search Press
Published: 28 Feb 2000
ISBN 10: 0855329017
ISBN 13: 9780855329013

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Mandy Southan trained at Ravensbourne College Of Art And Design and has a BA Hons. in Fashion/Textile design. She is president of the Guild of Silk Painters and a member of The Sussex Guild. She has painted on silk for many years and is particularly interested in traditional Japanese resist techniques. She experiments continually to find new ways of using old methods and her work on silk often combines different resist processes. Mandy teaches silk painting, rozome (Japanese wax resist) and Shibori at West Dean College and at her home studio in Hastings. You can see Mandy's work on her website: www.mandysouthan.co.uk

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