Monday, April 14, 2014

Loose Landscape

I haven't done silk painting for awhile and wanted to try doing one without resist and playing with hard and soft edges.  I did the sky first wet into wet and allowed it to dry.  Then I did the distant hills and let that area dry.  When you add silk dyes to an area that already has been dyed and dried, a hard line forms.  Sometimes that is a good effect and sometimes it is not.  I was trying for that technique with this project.  I continued to add colors once the previous layer was dry and then I added textures by drying the silk and adding more dyes.  I thought my background hills were going to be lighter than the foreground area when I was dying it but obviously, I miscalculated it.  I should have added the background hills while the sky was wet so that the edges were soft which would make that area recede.

There are things I would do some things differently next time but I think it does look interesting.  I'm really happy with the sky though and I like the juxtaposition of the realistic sky and the stylized ground.

8 comments:

  1. Bonjour,

    J'aime beaucoup ce paysage et notamment votre ciel... Il est magnifique.
    Gros bisous

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  2. I think it is beautiful, Nancy! It might be a darker green in the background and I know it should go lighter to show distance but for some reason, the value looks perfect to me. Maybe it is because it is a grayer green than the foreground so it works perfectly from my point of view.

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    1. Thank you Sherry. It sure was fun to paint. I'm going to try some more today.

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  3. SO unique, Nancy. I love it!...and the sky looks beautiful...very realistic! I hope you use this technique again...! And I don't know how I missed your previous "golden plumeria"!!! a beautiful flower, painted perfectly...!

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  4. Dear Nancy - I think this is so beautiful. Very peaceful too. Hope you have a great Easter week-end.

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    1. Thank you Debbie. I hope your Easter is nice as well.

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