Beginners Silk Painting

Instructor: Maureen Walker.
Discover the colourful world of painting on silk. Using silk as your canvas and dye as the medium you can take your painting into a whole new dimension of colour tonality with no risk of creating "mud". This workshop is suitable for complete beginners as well as watercolourists wanting to extend their skills by learning new techniques.
The focus of the workshop will be based on learning the traditional silk painting technique of outlining a design with resist, painting wet on dry and wet on wet with dye. You will be exploring the balance of line and colour using only the primary hues. There will be plenty of opportunity to experiment with creating your own, unique secondary, tertiary and intermediate colours either by direct mixing in the palette, or by layering and glazing on the silk.
Most materials will be provided, including some simple designs (flowers, butterflies, fish) if required. The workshop will begin with a silk painting demo and end with each person taking home a 17" x 17" painting on silk, together with a comprehensive hand-out.