Hello Clara, I enjoy your videos very much and I decided to try painting on silk, but I have a problem, wish you could help me with it. Even though I follow your instructions, after applying the gutta, the colours still bleed outside the lines? Any idea what is it that I am doing wrong?
Good Morning Chair Raglan, Thanks for your kind words and for your question. Here are two main concerns:- Make certain that you let the gutta dry thoroughly, before applying the silk paint or dye. Take care when applying the gutta to fill in any spaces that may occur while you are pulling your gutta lines. Other concerns:- Make sure that the gutta flows through to the other side of the silk. If your silk fabric is store bought, you must wash off the 'sizing', a type of starch which creates a slight sheen. Do this wash and the silk is then ironed BEFORE you beginto work on the silk. The gutta I use now is Jacquard Resistad water base gutta, which can be purchased from Dharma Trading, which also sell ready-to-use silk. Hope this helps. All the best! More videos in the new year!
Good Morning Carmen Fuentes Brenes, Thank you for your question. You can use a combination of steel pins, which are like tall thumb tacks, and office rubber bands. This particular method means that the silk would have to touch your frame. I strongly suggest that you go to the Dharma Trading website, or contact them for further information. They are very helpful, and do ship internationally. www.dharmatrading.com Hope this helps Carmen. Enjoy your experimenting.🖌✨
Good Afternoon Arati Kapoor, Thanks for your question. The colours I predominantly use are silk paints, which are made to the consistency of dyes; therefore, they are quite liquid, not thick at all! The are called, Dye-Na-Flow silk paints, and I purchase them from Dharma Trading, in California. Check out their website for other products. Hope this helps.
Good Morning ThePaintTube, The gutta is specific to silk painting, and is NOT used on any other fiber. You will need wax for cotton fibers, and then you’ll be doing batik. Hope this helps.🖌
Thanks for your question Yvonne. The gutta I use is a water-based gutta, called Jacquard's Resistad, that I purchase from Dharma Trading in California. Once you have applied the gutta, you must let is dry thoroughly, BEFORE applying your colours. The colours I use are Dye-Na-Flow silk paints, which are made specially for silk painting. They are also quite vibrant, and are heat-set by using a very hot iron. (This eliminates the use of the Industrial Electric Steamer.) Much easier for a beginning silk painter. Hope this helps. You may also check my Instagram at @claradesignsart for more examples of my work, as well as www.claradesigns.com
So sorry that I missed your question., Drgraham1295. The brushes that are specific to silk painting are called semi bamboo brushes. Check out the Dharma Trading website for more silk painting tools. Hope this helps.
Good Morning @cactus4721, Thanks for your question. The 'outlining' of the design is done with water-based 'gutta'. This is the main ingredient for the silk painting technique. The brand I use is Jacquard's Resistad water-base gutta, which I purchase from Dharma Trading in California. This company caters to artists and crafts people, and so ship internationally. Hope this helps. Do check out my other designs on my Instagram account @claradesignsart Enjoy!
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Thank YOU so much for sharing your Beautiful Art.
Vary cool would be nice to see the whole process of painting a piece , and what it looks like in the end .
Certainly! Thanks for your remarks. You can find this piece called ‘Imaginings’ on my website:- www.claradesigns.com
Enjoy!✨
Hi Clara. I want to buy Chinese suspension hooks. Could you please guide for hooks. Thank you. Take care.🌸
Hello Clara, I enjoy your videos very much and I decided to try painting on silk, but I have a problem, wish you could help me with it. Even though I follow your instructions, after applying the gutta, the colours still bleed outside the lines? Any idea what is it that I am doing wrong?
Good Morning Chair Raglan,
Thanks for your kind words and for your question.
Here are two main concerns:-
Make certain that you let the gutta dry thoroughly, before applying the silk paint or dye.
Take care when applying the gutta to fill in any spaces that may occur while you are pulling your gutta lines.
Other concerns:-
Make sure that the gutta flows through to the other side of the silk.
If your silk fabric is store bought, you must wash off the 'sizing', a type of starch which creates a slight sheen. Do this wash and the silk is then ironed BEFORE you beginto work on the silk.
The gutta I use now is Jacquard Resistad water base gutta, which can be purchased from Dharma Trading, which also sell ready-to-use silk.
Hope this helps. All the best! More videos in the new year!
Please , could you recommend an idea, I dont have chineese suspenssion clips, how can I use the silk
Good Morning Carmen Fuentes Brenes,
Thank you for your question.
You can use a combination of steel pins, which are like tall thumb tacks, and office rubber bands.
This particular method means that the silk would have to touch your frame.
I strongly suggest that you go to the Dharma Trading website, or contact them for further information.
They are very helpful, and do ship internationally.
www.dharmatrading.com
Hope this helps Carmen. Enjoy your experimenting.🖌✨
Hi ma’am, are you using acrylic colors here on silk or silk colors. Bcs they are looking thick not translucent.
Good Afternoon Arati Kapoor, Thanks for your question. The colours I predominantly use are silk paints, which are made to the consistency of dyes; therefore, they are quite liquid, not thick at all! The are called, Dye-Na-Flow silk paints, and I purchase them from Dharma Trading, in California. Check out their website for other products. Hope this helps.
Can I use gutta on cotton fabric also?
If not.. what can I use on cotton fabric instead of gutta? Anything similar?
Good Morning ThePaintTube,
The gutta is specific to silk painting, and is NOT used on any other fiber.
You will need wax for cotton fibers, and then you’ll be doing batik.
Hope this helps.🖌
Gutta trasparente? Poi si lascia asciugare? Prima di usare cori? Grazie
Thanks for your question Yvonne.
The gutta I use is a water-based gutta, called Jacquard's Resistad, that I purchase from Dharma Trading in California.
Once you have applied the gutta, you must let is dry thoroughly, BEFORE applying your colours.
The colours I use are Dye-Na-Flow silk paints, which are made specially for silk painting. They are also quite vibrant, and are heat-set by using a very hot iron. (This eliminates the use of the Industrial Electric Steamer.) Much easier for a beginning silk painter.
Hope this helps.
You may also check my Instagram at @claradesignsart for more examples of my work, as well as www.claradesigns.com
Can you share the name of the brushes you use for painting?
So sorry that I missed your question., Drgraham1295. The brushes that are specific to silk painting are called semi bamboo brushes. Check out the Dharma Trading website for more silk painting tools. Hope this helps.
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Outliners name plz
Good Morning @cactus4721,
Thanks for your question. The 'outlining' of the design is done with water-based 'gutta'. This is the main ingredient for the silk painting technique.
The brand I use is Jacquard's Resistad water-base gutta, which I purchase from Dharma Trading in California.
This company caters to artists and crafts people, and so ship internationally.
Hope this helps. Do check out my other designs on my Instagram account @claradesignsart Enjoy!