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Beginner's Guide to Silk Painting

Author: Mandy Southan
Pages: 64
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Publisher: Search Press
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4Q0146
Weight: 0.6lb

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MSRP: $15.95

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Learn how to color soft, lustrous silk with dyes and paints; add highlights, texture and tone to abstract designs or paint beautiful pictures. With just the touch of a brush, you can create luminous washes, vibrant flowers or exotic fruit. Add gold outline, gutta, wax or salt to your palette to produce bold patterns of color, striking atmospheric effects or colorful impressionistic landscapes.

Twelve innovative step-by-step projects illustrate clearly Mandy Southan's fresh and original approach to silk painting.

About the Author

Mandy Southan grew up in Surrey, England and studied textile design at Ravensbourne College of Art. After working in a textile studio in London and as a freelance designer, she set up her own studio. She worked for a number of years with her husband, Ian, producing hand printed and painted fabrics. She now spends her time painting on silk and in watercolor and teaching individuals and small groups.

She specializes in the use of color and finds inspiration living by the sea and in travelling; she is drawn to the Mediterranean where many of her paintings are done. She also loves flowers and is currently working on large floral silk panels for home and business interiors.

Mandy is founder and president of the Guild of Silk Painters and lives in Hastings with her husband and three children.

Table of Contents
Introduction	6
Basic Materials	8
Using Color	12
Color Mixing - Color Wheel	14
Sunflower Scarf - Painting on Damp Silk	18
Mandarin Cushion - Painting on Dry Silk	22
Textured Effects - Using Salt	24
Using Resists	26
Iris Picture - Using Gutta	28
Fossil Scarf - Using Outliner	32
Autumn Leaves - Using Gutta with a Blended Wash	36
Sea Spray Scarf - Using Wax	38
Kingfisher Cushion - Using Wax	42
Moving On	46
Velvet Cushion - Using Discharge Paste	48
Striped Scarf - Using Diffusing Medium	50
Exotic Orchid Wallhanging - Using Dye-Tinted Gutta	52
Greek Mountain Landscape - Using Salt Solution	54
Flower and Grape Panel - Using Anti-Spread	56
Finishing Off - Adding Detail	57
Glossary	58
Common Mistakes	63
Index	64

Instruction Page

Exotic Orchid Wallhanging

Velvet Cushion

Silk Painting using

Silk Dyes & Paints

OUT OF PRINT

Painting Flowers on Silk
by Mandy Southan

Silk Ribbon Embroidery: Some by Machine, some w/ Paints & Dyes used in the Background, &/or Dye Silk Ribbon

Mixed Media Pictorial

Color Pencils, Textile Medium, Paints &/or Paint Sticks

Simulate Faux Applique and Traditional Blocks OR Embellish Innovative quilts with:

Color Pencils

Faux Applique
by Helen Stubbings

Paint a Quilt
by Marie Monteith Sturmer

Encaustic Wax as a Painting Medium

Pictorial Motifs

Shiva® Artist's Painstiks® & Accessories for Stenciling

Page 1 of 6

Page 2 & 3 of 6

Page 4 of 6

Page 5 of 6

Page 6 of 6

Paintstick Sets

Iridescent & Matte.
Sets of 3, 6, 12 or 15+

Page 2
Matte Paintstiks

Single (51 Colors)

Page 3
Iridescent Paintstiks

Single (15) Colors

Cedar Canyon Textiles Patterns for Shiva Paintstiks

Butterflies Pattern
using Shiva Paintstiks
by Nancy Kazlauckas

Use w/ ANY
Cedar Canyon's
Rubbing Plates

Paintstik Patches
by Shelly Stokes

Use Tsukineko Inks with:

CD, DVDs. Books, Patterns, Stencils & More

Linda M Visnaw DVD & Patterns w/ Instructional CDs
using Tsukineko All-Purpose Inks & Free-Hand Machine Embroidery

Trish Stuart's QuiltArt Series on &

QuiltArt:
Curves Made Easy
with Trish Stuart

Instructional DVDs w/ Printable Patterns
Use Paint or Tsukineko Inks & Some w/ Free-motion Embroidery

Joyce Becker's Landscape Books/DVD

»Mixed Media: Tsukineko inks & Fabrico Pens + free-motion machine embroidery

Ready to Paint Series by Search Press

Gourd Art

More Landscape & Nature Pictorial:
»Mixed Media (paint, pens, ink)
&/OR
»Hand OR Free-Motion Embroidery

Landscape Quilts
by Nancy Zieman & Natalie Sewell