Haiying Silk Painting Blog

Silk landscape, very heavy flat hobotai, 20 x 50' or 45 x 130cm

2007-06-01T06:43:00.000-07:00

Silk landscape, charmeuse, 15 x 50' or 37 x 130cm

2007-05-31T05:07:00.000-07:00

Scarf, habotai, 8mm, 15 x 45', 30 x 120cm

2007-04-02T19:30:00.000-07:00

Scarf, jacauard, 14mm, 12 x 72', 30 x 180cm

2007-04-02T19:27:00.000-07:00

Scarf, crepe de chine, 14mm, 12 x 60', 30 x 150cm

2007-04-02T19:26:00.000-07:00

Scarf, crepe de chine, 14mm, 15 x 72', 40 x 180cm

2007-04-02T19:23:00.000-07:00

Scarf, crepe de chine, 14mm, 12 x 60', 30 x 150cm

2007-04-02T19:22:00.000-07:00

Scarf, crepe de chine, 14mm, 12 x 60', 30 x 150cm

2007-04-02T19:20:00.000-07:00

Scarf, crepe de chine, 14mm, 8 x 60', 20 x 150cm

2007-04-02T19:15:00.000-07:00

Two scarves, purplish and greenish

2007-04-02T16:08:00.000-07:00

Scarf with ceramic painting

2007-04-02T16:04:00.000-07:00

Chiffon, 8mm, 15 x 72' or 40 x 180cm

Exercise, scarf, folded

2007-04-02T09:12:00.000-07:00

Exercise, scarf

2007-04-02T09:01:00.000-07:00

Chiffon, 8mm, 22 x 22' or 55 x 55cm

Exercise, abstract

2007-04-02T08:58:00.000-07:00

Crepe de chine, 14mm, 9 x 9' or 22 x 22cm
Put colour in, let nature do the trick.

Exercise of landscape

2007-04-02T06:03:00.000-07:00

Crepe de chine, 14mm, 9 x 9' or 22 x 22cm

Landscape on charmeuse, 19mm, 15 x 15', or 40 x 40cm

2007-03-30T22:42:00.000-07:00

A gift to Joy Percival

2007-03-30T04:47:00.000-07:00

Practice, a simple design

2007-03-30T04:31:00.000-07:00

Silk painting exercise, the colour

2007-03-27T21:31:00.000-07:00

Mounting silk 2, finished piece

2007-03-01T06:25:00.000-08:00

Put the mounted silk in. Here it is.

To protect the silk, put it behind glass or non-reflecting something. I did not put glass here because I was taking photo with flash in night (1:30am).

The frame was a very inexpensive one. You may choose a better one with matting.

This piece of silk was a special. It was painted on September 1, 2005. Technically, it was the beginning stage of a new style of my silk painting. I started to use colour blending in my painting.

I started the big leaf with green, then the small leaves green also, then I found that this painting needed nothing but green. How boring! To differentiate the leaves, I put yellow in some leaves, water in some others and blue in the rest. Then the whole painting stood up. I could see the young tender leaf vs the old broken ones. I also saw the layer and distance of the leaves. At the end I put some cyan here and some royal blue there as background. It came out pretty dark as it was still wet.

Half an hour later, I checked it again. The yellow in the green brightened up and the blue darkened down. It was such a mysterious secenery that I could never imagine! The joy was beyond ... words.

Mounting silk 1, tape the hankie to a card board

2007-03-01T06:13:00.000-08:00

Attach the silk tightly to a piece of white card board with strong tape. Here I used 3M Scotch Crystal Clear Tape.

Here, I have a frame of 25cm x 25cm. (10 x 10 inch). The silk hankie has to be mounted tightly and taped strongly so that the front side look flat and sleek.

Colouring silk 10, finish the painting

2007-02-28T22:32:00.000-08:00

This is a finished piece.

I took this phote under sunshine. It was almost the true colour as it is.

As you can see, the colour was not totally dried. The whole process of painting this piece of silk took 15 minutes.

Ususally, I provide students with the outlined silk for exercise. I do not do colour chart exercise. I let people play around with colour on the pre-outlined silk.

After this resultful colouring exercise, students go to the second stage of silk painting - gutta serti technique.

If you are interested in getting a piece of pre outlined silk, write me an email. Thank you.
yanghaiying@yahoo.com

Colouring silk 9, correct mistake

2007-02-28T22:27:00.000-08:00

I often have some Q tip handy to correct mistakes if any.

Here, the Q tip absorbed the excess background dye which might eventually go into the green leaf.

Colouring silk 8, paint the background

2007-02-28T22:23:00.000-08:00

I applied a lot of water and very light diluted dye to colour the background. I would like to background compromise the strong colour of the flower.

Colouring silk 7, colour the whole flower

2007-02-28T22:21:00.000-08:00