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.