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Silk
painting Technics
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Salt
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This
is a very easy way to adorn your paintings. You can either use salt on the background
of your work or put salt to an area bordered with a resist.
The
effect obtained in this technic is by sprinkling course salt to painted wet
(damp) fabric.
The best effect shows on secondary or tertiary colours like green, purple,
orange and different browns. It is difficult to obtain the design exactly as you
wanted because every piece of salt sucks the paint in a different degree and
creates a very nice design.
As
you can see in the above picture you can sprinkle the salt to the joint area of
the two different colours to have them penetrate to each other.
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Alchool
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This
is also a very simple technic to work with. To use the alchool on the silk, the painted area
should be dried completely. Either you use small brush strokes or use a large
sponge to get the nice effects on your design. Mix the alchool and water
for this work. When we touch the mixture on the painted surface the alchool
pushes the paint to make a darker border leaving the middle light.
You
can mix a few drop of colour to the alchool mixture to get a light coloured
areas instead of colourless.
Use salt and
let the silk dry completely then work with alchool. You will see
beautiful effects.
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Syrup
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Did
you think you can only make desert with a heavy syrup? This is a technique
I do love very much.
Click
on here
 
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Gutta
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The
liquid dyes spread as soon as it touches the silk. To keep the colour in a
border we use a resist, mostly gutta. Gutta can be clear or coloured,
thinned with water or with thinner.
You
can colour the gutta to your liking with a tiny bit of "encre
typographique"
Use
plastic bottles with a metal tip and draw borders to your design. Even one
single tread left without gutta will ouze out the colour.
If
we want the gutta not to attract attention we should use gutta the same colour
as the design. Otherwise we should use dark colour, or silver or gold colour
gutta.
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Stencil
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Spray
the dye around a stencil to create the designs.
Sometimes we can use different colours to create nice effects.
We
shouldn't forget that thick materials sucks more paint then thin fabrics, also
they look darker when dyed.
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Wax
(faux batik)
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We paint the
first layer lightest colour. Wait for the dye to dry completely. We
cover the areas that we don't want to be coloured with melted wax . Then again we do the same until
all the design is painted.
We
should be aware of the final colour when we pose the colours on top of each
other. For example,red painted over yellow will bring orangy red. We
should start from the lightest colour.
Tie-dye
We
can start with white silk or we can first dye our silk to a soft colour,
tie with a strong tread and dye again to a different colour. Here we use the
tread to prevent the dye to reach some areas on the silk.
You
see two examples of this method.
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Bayadere
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Trying
our best not to make a border in between colours we draw bands with dye and
alchool. These should follow each other without making dark lines. After
dye is completely dried we may make a design by wax or we may draw a design with
gutta. You may even give crackle effect if you use wax then paint the material
with darker colour.
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Antifusan
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Few
hours before usage mix 1part of gutta to 7 part of thinner (or benzine). Cover
the fabric with this solution using a sponge.
Don't forget to ventilate the
room well and avoid using anything which
will start a fire.
Let it dry completely. After drying the fabric can be used
as paper. The paint will not spread. If
we want a coloured background we should use a light colour and paint the silk
before covering with the mixture.
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Aquarel
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This
technic is the best for scenery paintings. We don't use any resist, or any
antifuzan for aquarel. The colours are manipulated by using the wetness of the
fabric.
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Marbling
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.Marbling
is best to be seen in http://www.ebristan.com
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EBRU;
"the dream of water". You should see the work of Mr. H. Barutçugil
to understand the meaning of this phrase.
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