I’ve just been painting a very large rainbow silk and thought I’d share some of the photos I took as I went along.
I no longer have my attic studio so here I am dragging in everything from the outhouse. My old work top to lay on top of the dining room table. Setting up 2 side tables and adjusting the height.
Silk frame pieces together and stretching the white silk ready for work.
Putting out all the dyes and brushes I’ll need.
And off we go, adding all the rainbow colours, bringing the silk alive with a burst of colour.
Finally adding a liberal sprinkling of salt on top of the glistening dyes. And now leave it to rest for a while.
Later I come back and carefully remove all the salt. The dye still isn’t fixed to it’s important not to splash anything on the silk or get it wet.
I roll it up in paper ready for its 3 hour steam bath….
And the moment of truth. Unrolling the silk and how those colours glisten. So taking it outside in the sunshine for a preliminary photoshoot. Next it’ll be washed and ironed.
After that I’ll be making some wide silk tabs to add along the top, transforming the silk into a large hanger. The rainbow colours are very therapeutic in all sorts of contexts – whether in your own personal sacred space or in therapy rooms where people from all walks of life come for healing.