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Silk Painting

Silk Painting. Crafts. What is Silk Painting?. Silk painting is creating art on fabric with silk as the canvas. History of Silk Painting. Silk painting can be traced back to the 2nd century AD in India when the 'wax resist' technique for embellishing silk was used.

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Silk Painting

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  1. Silk Painting Crafts

  2. What is Silk Painting? Silk painting is creating art on fabric with silk as the canvas.

  3. History of Silk Painting • Silk painting can be traced back to the 2nd century AD in India when the 'wax resist' technique for embellishing silk was used. • The batik industry in silk flourished about 200 years later. • In the 1920s hand painted silk designs began to appear in France. • It wasn't until the 1970s that silk painting became really popular in the U.S.

  4. Materials Needed: *Resist - wax resist, gutta resist *Dye *Brush *Smock - dyes will stain clothes! *Paint cups *Cup of Water *Newspaper over work space *Silk

  5. Steps: The Serti (closing or fence) technique: Step 1: Prewashing your silk Step 2: Preparing your design Step 3: Making a Stretcher Frame Step 4: Stretching your silk Step 5: Applying gutta or resist Step 6: Applying dyes or paints Step 7: Setting/Fixing the color Step 8: Removing clear gutta or clear water-based resist

  6. Applying resist:

  7. Applying Dyes:

  8. The technique of applying dyes is very similar to painting with watercolors.

  9. Example of silk painting in progress:

  10. Example of completed silk painting using the Serti Technique:

  11. Another example:

  12. another example…

  13. Your assignment: Paint a mandala design on a pre-stretched round silk. Step 1: Come up with an original mandala design Step 2: Transfer the design onto the pre-stretched round silk Step 3: Trace your design with gutta or resist Step 4: Neatly paint the design with dyes

  14. What is a mandala? The word mandala is from Sanskrit, a classical Indian language developed over 2,300 years ago. Loosely translated to mean circle. Mandala In Nature: The "circle with a center" pattern is the basic structure of creation that is reflected from the micro to the macro in the world as we know it. It is a pattern found in nature and is seen in biology, geology, chemistry, physics and astronomy. Flowers, the rings found in tree trunks and the spiraling outward and inward of a snail's shell all reflect the primal mandala pattern.

  15. Examples of Mandalas in Nature:

  16. Mandalas in Art and Culture: The mandala pattern is used in many religious traditions: The Americas: Native Americans- medicine wheels Aztec - calendars In Asia: The Taoist "yin-yang" symbol Tibetan mandalas Europe: Christian Cathedrals - Rosetta windows

  17. Mandala examples in Art and Culture:

  18. Mandala Silk Paintings:

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