Posted in January 29, 2010 ¬ 3:56 amh.admin
Traditional Chinese painting can create a fascinating decorative effect by combing the strips of scrim before they are laid on wet silk. The thicker lines that cross the design were produced by the gathered threads.
Except this, Chinese landscape painting can also do the helix effect by twisting the strips of scrim before [...]
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Posted in January 18, 2010 ¬ 5:51 amh.admin
To get decorative effects of your personal Chinese brush painting, sometimes we could use builders’ scrim. But by distressing the strips of scrim before they are laid on wet silk this fascinating effect can be created using silk paintings. The scrim has a coating of size which makes it cling to the [...]
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Posted in January 15, 2010 ¬ 3:30 amh.admin
What makes a Japanese silk painting so amazing and in great feel? It is the achievement of the threads. There are many interesting textured threads available and they can be used as a resist to create decorative effects. Among those, the ‘eyelash’ thread being most commonly used for this effect was [...]
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Posted in January 14, 2010 ¬ 4:48 amh.admin
Stencil is a necessary tool for working on the silk painting; a good stencil predicts a good Japanese silk paintings art. How to make the stencil?
We have been experimenting with the use of Glitterati Filaments to produce a stencil to use on silk with silk paints. The random clump [...]
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Posted in January 7, 2010 ¬ 10:51 pmh.admin
If you carefully appreciating a silk painting, you may found the letters on the silk is a complex and amazing work. How did they achieve that?
That is easy. Two stencils would be enough for the whole work. We use a stencil and keep the lettering simple. The words became [...]
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Posted in January 3, 2010 ¬ 3:29 amh.admin
Satin silk, as we all know, is a kind of the silk terms. We commonly create a Chinese painting tradition on habutai silk, however, the silky sheen always lost in the producing process. While satin silk has avoided the case happened on the painting on silk. It was a very pleased result [...]
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