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1. Silk intro: Hi, and welcome to my studio. I'm Sara, and I'm a silk artist. It's my pleasure to teach you how to paint
on silk as well. Today, we're going to learn the basics of painting on silk and you'll end up with
a beautiful artwork like this one.
That's the turtle. Maybe you'll do the
butterfly, which is this one. Butterfly. Beautiful artworks on beautiful 100% pure silk, using professional dyes, please. We'll learn how to do it with just three colors,
red, yellow, and blue. So let's get into it because
it's a whole lot of fun, and I'm so glad
you're here with us.
2. Lesson 1 Supplies List: Yeah. Okay. Let's go over the supplies list of
things you're going to need to start
painting with silk. First of all, is
the silk itself. This is 100% pure silk. This is booty tie, silk, which is 12 MM. That's how the weight of the
silk is measured by Mom, which is M M. Eight
is very light, 16 is quite a bit heavier. This is 100% pure silk. This is what you
will need to paint with silk die onto silk fabric. Then next we go on to
our dies to these. So, I tend to use red yellow and blue and mix
everything from there. These are steam set
professional dies. Some of the brands to look
out for Pont or Jakart you can buy a locally made silk die that's produced in your country. At the end of the video, there's a list of suppliers. Dama trading is probably the biggest and
the most popular. They have everything
that you will need. They're in America, and
they do ship worldwide. I can highly recommend them. But there will be supplies
in your own country as well. These are the dyes. You can
see in the yellow there. They're very liquid and
very, very concentrated. You don't need much at all. You'll need a design. You'll be able to download
a design to paint. That's the butterfly,
there's some flowers, and this is the turtle in the designs that
you can download or you can use your own. So next is brushes. Let's talk about brushes. An brush is fine. Acrylic paint brush,
watercolor brushes, whatever you need,
you can use is fine. In one of the videos,
you'll see me using this one, which
is a mop brush, which I find is really
great for wetting down large areas with water,
holds a lot of water. These brushes hold a lot of die. They're very n a really
nice brush to work with. You can get a nice point. Some flat and get some
really nice marks as well. A pipette for moving the
die around in your palette. This is the palette as well. And put your die in gloves. Keep your hands clean, just
rubber gloves. The gutta. That's what you'll use to make the lines on the silk
that will hold the die. Here's one. I can
see a piece of silk, which is a flower
drawn on it with gut. The clear is theta line, and that will hold the die from mixing with the color
with the area beside it. It's called the technique. That's what we'll be
doing in this tutorial. Next up are ways to
stretch your silk. Now, I'll be demonstrating
using freezer paper, just this one that you
can buy Amazon has it. Freezer paper works well, so you iron the silk onto that, and then put the
gutter on and you die, and it holds it flat and. That's what else what else
you need to think about. Other methods that if you
don't have the freezer paper, you might have an embroidery
hoop. Is this one. That's an embroidery
hoop and I've just pinned it and then pull it out to keep
it tar like that. That's an embroidery hoop. You can also use it
not pinned and stretch your fabric out into the
embroidery hoop that way. Then another way if
you wanted to go a little further into it, sec. This is my stretcher. This is what I use to do anything from small artworks
up to big artworks. It's hard to show you in here. This is PVC pipe, and that's what I attach my
silk onto with these clips. You can also do
the same thing as this and pin and then tape it
onto the PVC pipe as well. So if you want a bit
more information, let me know and I
can make a video on how to do the PVC pipe. This is really good
for going up doing really big scarves and things because it's got
plenty of strength. It doesn't bow and
buckle and you can go as big as you like with that. Next, you're going
to need is a pencil. You need pencil to
trace your diagram. Onto the silk. I'll go like this and
you'll see the diagram, and I'll use a pencil
in this demonstration. You can also use a pen that
is a fabric marking pen, and that disappears, it does marks and then it
disappears after time. This is another
good one as well. This is the general
sketch and wash, which is very much
like a pencil, but it certainly
washes out a whole lot better than a pencil. It is probably my favorite. The butcher's paper. This is what you will wrap the
silk up in to steam it, and we'll go through
that process. You either need a piece of butcher's paper or
some cotton fabric, just ordinary
sheeting that you can roll the silk up
in to go into the. Then we get on to the actual. Now, I have a In this tutorial, we'll be using a bamboo sma, which is just
regular bamboo sma. This is what I'll be using in the tutorial and I use that just on my stove
top in the kitchen. We'll see plenty of
pictures and video of that. Now, you'll also
need an old towel to wring out your fabric
after you've washed it, which I just use some towel, an old towel, so
whatever you like. When you do wash
it, you're going to need something basically, vinegar will do the job. Other than that, is
a professional wash, which is called syntrople, which you can also get from
Dama training as well. Then you also at the very end, the last process
is to on it dry. You need an iron that
will go down to a silk or a low setting on your
on and ironing surface. Then once you've done
all that, it's finished. That is all that
you're going to need. Download supplies list, get
your supplies together, and we'll start the process of painting on silk
in the next video.
3. Lesson 2 Tracing The Turtle: We've got the print
of the turtle here. This is what I'm going to
do, and this is my piece of silk that I'm going
to put it onto. Instead of having the
turtle going like this, I actually want
to do it swimming across the composition wise. I just turn him around.
I just got that. T with a bit of blue
tack, think like that. Let's have a look
at how that looks. I like that better
for composition wise. Turn that around. Yeah. Yes. I like that better. Composition wise,
the turtle and then the background is all going
to be blues and greens. A little bit of tape. Hold your silk down. I found it good to do it on a clipboard or
something that you can just hold it all down with
nice and easily and s as well. You know that what you're creating is going
to be in the middle of your page. Then
we just trace it. I'm just using a two H pencil. That way I can be light
and not see too much, but there's enough
there for me to see, just lightly trace over it. The silk moves. Really it's an artwork. It really doesn't matter,
doesn't have to be perfect. Once you start to put
the gotta edge on, you're going to see doesn't
need to be perfect at all. His little tail. Here we go. Okay. So once you've
done all that, I'd suggest do the, do the inside bits, as well. You know where all these go? Hi. Do the outside of the wings. You can then go and do all the little bits of
the wings or you can just do part of it and then fill it in and copy off the
picture whichever you like.
4. Lesson 3 Stretching The Silk 2 : Now I'm finished my drawing, and I'm really happy with it. It's certainly not perfect. And once we do the Gotta, we can make sure the lines are all closed
and things like that, but it's to give you
the idea of where it's going to go.
What we do next? Down is on it onto the freezer paper so you want to on it onto the shiny side. That's the dull side and
that's the shiny side. We'll on this on
using my iron and that's set on the silk setting. That's ready to go.
This is my on pad. It's hard to get started. But it's just a matter of
on it on the freezer paper. No getting any
wrinkles in it too. Now that's stuck here and
it's sitting out beautifully. As the top. We don't want
wrinkles. We just want it to hold it all out. Turn it around that way. Much. I.
5. Lesson 4 Applying The Gutta: I have finished my diagram, and then we've put it onto the freezer paper, it on nicely. Then I like to work
on a piece of board. I really doesn't matter. You can even just do it on
a to so that you're not getting so that your
surface is protected. Either way, I like
to use a board, you could use a
clipboard or even just pop a towel down underneath you and work on that, that's fine. Now realize it is quite
hard to just bring it up so you can see my drawing there, and it's all stuck onto
the frase of paper, and now we're ready to
put the gutta lines on. The gutta lines
are the resist on the lines to stop the die from seeping
out into each other. The resist lines go on where
we've done the pencil lines. This is the little
bottle that you receive in your
kit of the resist. It's just a clear
exact glue thing, but it's a water soluble
resist works beautifully. This is the tip and
just take the pin out, which is keeping your tip clear. Make sure that your resist is
up in the tip a little bit, so just by holding it down. Then you just start. I do realize it's really hard to see. I'll give you some
more close up. All I need to do
is just squeeze in the bottle really easily
and follow the lines. Down in the tip. There we go. Let me just get a tissue. We have some paper
towel with you perhaps. It's up in the tip, wipe it
off, and then we right to go. It's just about calm
relaxing lines. And we'll go all
over it and you need to make sure that your
lines are closed. Let see there I've just
missed a couple of spots. Then we need to go back and
make sure that your lines are closed so that the die
stays inside of it. There you go. It's just a matter of going over the whole thing, especially with
the turtle design, everywhere is a line, is going to be holding die in. Also in the total picture
and the artwork at the end, where the lines are, will be a nice light line
and looks beautiful. So we're going to do a really
a pretty blue background, and the turtles are all
mixture of cream and browns with the darker color
in the center of each piece of the turtle, and then darker bits and
lighter bits down here. Just to give nice contrast, and then the beautiful
blue background. It's going to be lovely. Then once it's finished, where all this is will
be left as a white line. Okay. Let's carry on. I like to work from
top to bottom, so I'm not putting my
hand over the top of it, so we'll do his head next. The more you practice,
smoother your lines will be. You need to just take your
time and enjoy the process. Here we go. You'll be able to see where your lines
don't quite meet. It doesn't matter so much inside the turtle because it's
going to be similar colors. Really do want the outside
lines all joined up so that your brownie colors
don't mix with your blues. That's what we'll get to. These few spots as well around
on his head, some circles, and some spots, and
it's just creating interest. Move out here. It is just a matter of taking your time and getting used
to how the gutta flows. And resting your hand, it'll
get so. Take your time. Doesn't have to be done all in one day. Just take your time. And that you practice, the better you'll get at it. Hey. There we go. I'll give you a close
up of me doing it. It's easy, and it's
really relaxing. We've just come in a bit closer so you can see exactly
what I'm doing. Let's just do this outside. Right. It doesn't matter so
much if these lines all don't meet up because
they are really just there to create
in your project rather than hold the Yeah. Let's just have a look at the diagram because I don't
think I've drawn it all in. S all this, I didn't draw all
this in, which is all here. S that. We're just
going to keep going. Really, it doesn't matter. Let's just make it up. He. All that needs to be. You really don't have to
do whatever is there. Make it all up. I'm sure the
turtle wave. Here we go. Put a few more lines in here. There we go. There we have. Okay. I'll finish this off and you
finish yours off and then we'll see about mixing the dies, ready for the colors
in the next session.
6. Lesson 5 Painting The Turtle: Now we're going to talk
about some colors. In what we try to work with
is three primary colors. I've got in my palette already, I've got yellow, blue, and red. From those primary colors, we can mix any color we like. We're looking at
the color wheel, yellow, red, and blue,
three primary colors. From those, we can
mix every other color that we want to mix. Red and blue mas purple. Yellow and red makes orange, yellow and red, makes orange. Yellow and blue
makes the greens. What we also want to make is a nice brown or real
neutral colors for the turtle shell is what we're going to do first
and its legs and heads. If you can think back
to high school art, red yellow and blue, mix together, and you will
get brown or a neutral color. We're going to have
a go at doing that. I've mixed in my palette
a few more drops. These are all just
two drops in here. This is yellow because I'm
thinking yellow is going to be closer more used
color in my colors, but I've got a piece
of paper towel here that we'll just have
a play with as well. I'm just going to
pick up some colors, a little bit of blue, and
put it into the yellow. Of course, that makes green. Rinse that off in the water. And then I'll pick up a bit of red and just see
what we make with that. I didn't want too
much red in it, a little bit green.
Add a bit more red. I might need more
red than I thought. There we go. We've got
my base here over brown. It's a really yellow.
It's a yellowy brown. It's not really dark. I may pick some of that
up and put it into another palette and darken
it a bit more as well. L et's just have a play. Stick with this. What we might do is just start
with some color. What I want to be able to do is have in each section
of the turtle, a dark section in the center and lighter
out to the edges. What I'm going to do is rather than the Let's
start in the middle. I'm going to wet the area, and I'm just going to drop a little bit of this color dye, straight brown. There you go. It's probably still a little
green but what I want. I'm just going to round
it up a little bit more. More red. Ir. Let's pop a little drop of
that in the middle. When you put I'm liking
that much better. There we go. That's exactly the look
that I'm looking for, darker in the center and let the dye do its thing
out to the edges. Bigger section. I'm
going to wet it first so that the dye
spreads beautifully, and start with the darker
color in the center, and then let it do its thing, goes out for the edges. I pick up a bit of that die over here and mix a fair bit of water in it so I've got a
lighter color with the pipe. There we go. Me and light. Just to give me a lighter color to go
right out to the edges. So it's got a bit of
color, but not a lot. Do another one. That
darker color in the middle. With a couple. There's no right or wrong. There's nothing that is wrong. If you put too much water in, it will break your gutta line. I'm not worried about it. Color right in the middle. Go. I've missed a little section of gutta or I've put too
much water in there. I'm not overly
worried about colors mixing here on the turtle
because it's really about the white lines and
the color in the center. And then I'll just pick up
a little bit more color wherever I feel like
it been green there. Really, that bit of green, I'm not unhappy about it. Is have green. I'm sure it will look lovely. Marker, are lighter. Not overly fast, so
it doesn't worry me, and that's the joy
of it, there you go. Lighter bits that a lighter color. Yeah. Leer bits in the corners. That's a bit interesting.
That's through here. Dropping some bits here and
there of the darker colors. Just to make it interesting. I really like this bit of green. Really, it's just
about how it mixed or not so much mixed
on the palette. There we go. Then you can pick up some different areas where you want to just add a bit more dark if you like
anything else to pick it up. When we're doing the
flippers and the head, I my reference photo, it's quite a bit lighter here
and darker out on the tips. Let's do the lighter bits first. Fall in here, quite a bit
lighter than anything else. Before I, I forget about
them, them. Very light. Then it's just a
matter of picking up little areas that will
be a little bit darker, heading out to the edges. It's just a matter of filling
it all in, basically, picking up your colors
and playing with the colors and where you're
going to drop it and play. Nothing's wrong.
Nothing can go wrong. Just try and play with the
colors and see what comes up. This was an accident,
this green here, but I love it. It's fine. There you go filling
your turtle and then we'll start on the ocean, which is going to be a
beautiful blues and greens. I'm really happy with how
my turtles looking now, and I'm going to move on
to doing the background. What we want to do is really where we're going to
work section to section, but we're going to wet
it first and then drop the di and we'll
drop it in in blobs so that it mixes really
beautifully on the palette. I've cleaned up my palette, and I've taken the browns out, I just wiped it out
with some paper towel. And I've just got
blue and yellow, to give me beautiful
colors for the ocean. This is a lot of the blue, quite a few drops. This is the blue with a
little bit of yellow, and this is the same one
with a lot of water in it. Maybe that's where
I'm going to start. We're going to work
section to section. I've just pulled up a brush
that holds a lot of water. There might be let me
find another brush. Something else that
you might like to use. Any of the brushes.
It doesn't matter. Even go for a big flat
one to wet down the area. I am going to use this one to start off with
and see how we go. I'm going to wet it down. We also don't want to
put too much water in because it will
break the gotta line. Let's start over here
where it's further away. Just wetting it down, and then we'll start
with just dropping the colors in and
play with that. That's wet it down.
You can also use very carefully a spray bottle
if you want to miss it. Water down that way. I prefer to do it with a brush because
I have a bit more control. I'm going to use a brush, it's a bruh bit thicker. Just to start dropping
some coloring. Light so that we can want something a bit more
green than that blue. Beau dark blue. I want something more green, so I'm going to pick
up some yellow. That's a nice color. I think
that a nice beside blue. I'm quite got it right. Test
your colors over here first, probably what I
should have done. That needs more blue. Get out of here. Nothing
to change your mind. There we go. I like that. I might go quite blue.
Beside the turtle. Don't go too close, or else. I really like this green. I don't want too much of it. Lost it. There we go. Going to We just drop
some yellow in in places. How that looks. Yellow.
Oh, I like that too. Is a bit of color. We. I'm going to mix more. I really
like this grain. I'm going to bring
some of that back. One. Yeah, I like that. Doesn't
have to be a lot. I like this. And just keep wetting it until
we go all the way around. There again, there's
no right or roll. It just is just the ocean. Changes color. Had out to the edges because it
really doesn't matter. Wet it down and painter section. They can even go much
lighter in places. Out here. Leave some areas white if you can and be happy with
that because it's going to give you some beautiful
figs like the water sp. Okay. Then go und, move all the way
and play with it. Nothing's wrong I a matter of filling in the
color and go all the way out to the edges
so that you've got the option with how big
you want to frame it. There we go. Now, you'll see if
you've got broken edges in your turtle, little leak. Little tiny leak,
I might have just gone a little bit too
close with the die. Happy yellow down here, perhaps, just to sort
tie that yellow in. Put a bit of yellow down here. Be careful. What against
the turtle, be careful. How much did you put
in? There you go. I'll leave you to
fill out yours in, and I'll see you back
when I filled in mine.
7. Lesson 6 Steaming The Artwork 2: I'm really happy with how
my turtle has turned out. The water is really pretty. I got lots of
interesting bits to it. It's dry, so I've left it for quite a while and
it is all dry now. Let's take it off the
backing board for a start. We are still stuck to the paper. It has left it in places, but I'm not overly
worried about it. What we're going to do now is
get it ready for steaming. These dyes are
professional dies, and they need to be steam set, which I do on just the stove top using a bamboo steamer.
I'll show you that. We will just take it off. We go. We are beautiful. But you can see that the gutta you can still feel it
just a little bit. What happens in the
steaming process? Some of the gutta will
come out as well. It will evaporate and dry off, and then we wash it, and the rest of theta will
disappear then as well. I am going to stem mine rolled
up in a piece of paper. This is just butcher's paper. Nice clean butcher's paper. This is what I'm
going to sem it in. You can use butcher's paper. You can use white
sheeting fabric as well. Tth as long as it is flat. We don't want any
wrinkles in it, and then we will stem it and it will be ready to
go. Let's have a look. I'm going to roll it.
I'm just going to start my paper and roll it up. There we go. You don't
want any wrinkles, and if you are steaming more
than one piece at a time, you don't want two pieces of
silk touching each other. You can spread them out,
g roll them up or start another one and
keep rolling with another artwork and this
one will be in the middle. There we go. What
I'm going to do now is get it ready to
go into my steamer. I'm just going to use
that tape to hold that. I just fold the ends in as well. What we want, is for no
water to get in the. Don't want any
droplets of water from the steaming process
to get into that. Now I'm going to get
my steaming basket just to show you what I use. Just a regular
steamer. There you go. So what I want to
do now is get this, and I'm just going to
bend it around enough. It's going to go
nicely in the middle. I like to wrap mine up in a
t towel or a piece of towel, which this is just so that any droplets of water in
the steaming process, are going to be collected by the towel and not dripped in. If it's wrapped up well, it won't. There you go. A nice little parcel in there, and that is ready to be steamed. I steam that On my stove top, I have a wok that fits
this bamboo steamer. Fill the wok with half to
three quarters of the water, get it up to boiling, pop the steamer on top with the lid, and stam it for 45 minutes. Definitely 45 minutes. Sam it, then leave it for a little while to cool off because it'll be
very hot to touch. Once that's done, open
it up and we're ready to wash it and iron it dry
and it's all finished. I'm going to go sm this. You go and sem yours, and I'll see you
back in a moment. Yeah. Okay. Here's my steamer. I have steamed it
for 45 minutes, and it has cooled a little
bit. Let's open it up. Let me go. No too hot to touch
anymore. There we go. Open it up. Have a look
at what's happened. We are. We, one turtle around. Oop. That's how I painted
it. That's the right side. There we are now, there's
still some um gota on here, but that will come
out when we wash it. It's also stuck to
the paper in places. I'm not worried about that. Once we have washed it in hot water and added a bit
of vinegar to the water. That will set the dye to
the molecules of the silk. When we wash it, there may be a little bit
of dye run out. Perfectly normal.
It just means that there's too much
dye being put on a specific area for the amount
of moleccules in the silk. We're ready to wash that. And then it and it's finished.
8. Lesson 7 Wash and Iron Your Artwork: Now we're ready to wash
our silk just to rinse out the excess die and to get rid of the rest of
the gotta lines as well. We do that in a bowl of water. It's fairly warm as
warm as you can, and a little bit of vinegar. This is just shopping
store bought vinegar. It doesn't need to be anything much and about quarter of a cup. Just to set the die properly, and then we'll wash it. Put it in. Just by moving it around and then squeezing
as much as you can. Gently, but just
moving it around. Now you can see there's no
die coming out of that. None at all. I'm really happy. You can open it up and just
feel where your gutta was, we feel it might be
a little bit slimy, where the gutta is because
it hasn't quite come up. So keep washing. Pic on the side that
you did the gutta on. It feels pretty good. Go. Swap out this water now
for just plain warm water. We will get rid of the
vinegar smell as well. If there is d die running out, then rinse your water and
come back and do it again and again and again until you
get clear water coming out. There we go. I'll
probably go and wash that again fresh water
that out of the way. Then we put it onto a towel. Yeah. Let go lay it out. I've just got a
little towel here and we'll let me make sure I'm
happy with There we go. I'm just going to pop
another little to, but fold your towel over,
whatever works for you. Bring out as much of the
water out of that as possible. Pull it out. There we go. That's
the way I painted it. Really happy. I think
he looks gorgeous. As long as you're happy
with how that feels, just keep washing it, rinsing
the water out, fill a bit. I'll probably rinse him again. You see the bits
coming off of my hand, so I'll rinse again, rinse it, and then we're ready to it. I. I have washed it again
and rinsed it out again, and I'm really happy with
how my turtle looks. I've got beautiful lines, and everything I'm
really happy with it. We're ready to iron it now. I've rinsed it, I've
rolled it back up again, got as much of the dampness out. This is where my ironing pad. Now I've got my on here and it is set on the
silk setting here. You always want it
on the silk setting. Then we on it dry. Turned around as and. I'm going to take that out from underneath. Here we go. It's going to on the
back side as well, just a little bit just
to finish it off. There we are. There's your
up work all finished. I'm really happy with it. I love the colors in the turtle. I think it works brilliantly. The Gota lines all
held really nicely. There was no mixing
of colors in there. In the next video,
I'll go through some ideas with you on how you can frame it
and what you can do, whether we just hang it, and it just moves
nicely in the breeze, which is beautiful, or we can put it into
a picture frame, something that you can enjoy. In the next video,
we'll go through a few ideas on how to frame it.
9. Lesson 8 Framing The Silk: Okay. There we are. We have our finished artwork.
Beautiful turtle. Really happy with the
background looks lovely. The turtles come up really well. Could have been a
little darker in here, but I really like it. I'm really happy with the green and how that worked as well. Turtles are a
greeny brown color. I'm really h with the colors
and how it's all worked out. What I'm going to
show you now is some ideas on framing it. It's a beautiful piece of
artwork. What you could do. The very very basic way of doing it is getting something
like a small piece of dow from the hardware store and attaching the top
of it to the down. Now that can be just done
with a glue gun or glue, just attach it, and then roll it over and attach it again. You've got rid of that top edge. Then I would leave,
and what I tend to do with a lot of my artworks is leave the raw
edge, tidy them up. You can keep pulling
these pieces of thread, pull it out and tidy
up all these edges. You can do it by scissors, or you can just pull them
and it will all tidy up and give you a beautiful
soft edge that I really like. That's what I'll do on
a lot of my artworks. A way to show you on this side. A lot of my artworks I do leave with just
the natural edge, and you can pull out as
many rows of thread that you like going up to the sides
just to give it that look. There's your first option, piece of dow and just a hot
glue gun or just some glue, even just some double sided tape along that will work
brilliantly as well. Then I'll tend to attach
it with just a cord. Tie a cord to each
end of your dow, and it will hang beautifully
and nice and easy. The next option is to
actually frame it. What I've done is, I've
just picked up a cheap, and this is a four
about the right size, for all the artworks that we do. The printout is A four size, so the turtle should fit in here nicely. This is what
we're going to do. This one. Push all the little
corners back, take it out. What I'm going to do
is use this piece of cardboard and attach
my turtle to it, use that color, that side, so you're not seeing
anything through there. There's my turtle. Just
like that, turn it over. Little bit of tape to
hold this back places, and then we will put
it into the frame. What I'm going to do is
you would tape these up, tape all the corners up, put it then into your frame. Frame, make sure it's
all nice and clean. Turtle. These are all folded
in the backing board in. They give it a time,
M sure it's all done nicely and tidy. And there you go.
There's your turtle. Beautifully framed. I'm really happy with that.
It looks lovely. That can be or just stood up, and that's really
inexpensive and quick and easy and beautiful artwork. Hey. Now, some other
ideas, leave that there. Some other ideas that I
like to do with my artwork. Instead of using the dow, quite often, I'll use
piece of driftwood. Here's another little
artwork that I've got here. This is the butterfly.
The butterfly can go on here as
well. Same as the dow. You'll still hang it
with a piece of or rope, tidy up all the edges, a little bit of double
sided tape or glue gun or glue and hang it that way. That's my way for
the. That's the way I painted it. There you go. There's my butterfly. Tidy up all the edges, either
snip them off, pull them out and give
it a beautiful edge, a little bit of glue or some
hot glue, and there you go. There's your
butterfly, same way. This is another way. Is
these acrylic frames. Magnetic acrylic frames
are really nice. This is an artwork. This is just a little very
small artwork, acrylic frame, but they
do go up to A four size. It's a magnetic acrylic frame. There's my artwork and it
sits in there beautifully. There you go. That can stand
on a coffee table as well. They're very nice.
They're sturdy, they're nice. That's one idea. The other idea that you
can do is to actually buy a canvas already framed
from the one of their shop. You can either put
your artwork on, and get it centered
of how you'd like it. You can use a little bit
of double sided tape. You can trim your artwork back, so it sits nicely into the canvas or double sided
tape around the sides, as well, tidy up all the edges, and that would look lovely. You can also use
different products if you wanted a more
professional finish. You can trim it back, give it a nice edge, and this is the
product that we use. It's the golden Soft Gel gloss. There's some really good
YouTube videos on how to mount a silk
artwork onto a Canvas. This is the golden
soft gel gloss. There you go. YouTube that one. It's a really nice way to do it. If you've made your
canvas big enough, you can actually stretch it
and around to the sides, mine isn't, but
give you an idea. Either tack use little tacks, In here very carefully, you can just tack that
around if you've made your silk big enough
to go around the back. You could do that and just
attach even double sided tape, I think would work
as well or glue. You can do that just like you do a normal artwork if you're stretching it onto a
canvas, you can do that. There's lots of really good
ideas on ways that you can frame and display your
artwork that you've created. Turtle's finished. I think you've done
a really great job. This is mine, so you'll
receive a picture of this just to give
you an idea of where I use the colors and
what colors I use. Certainly, don't copy mine. Come up with your own
ideas. That's it. Always, if you
need to know more, you can contact me
through my website, and I hope you've enjoyed this. I.
Sahra Raward, Professional Artist
