1. “Primroses”
2. Working Drawing
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Silk Painting Designs using "Hidden" Gutta Lines
Primroses
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1. “Primroses” |
2. Working Drawing |
Start by painting the flower indicated (1) a very pale tint of your chosen colour. Shade the centre of the petals with a darker tone of that colour. Outline the flower with gutta. Deal with all the foreground flowers in turn in the same way.
Apply shading around the outlined flowers and paint the next layer of flowers in the same way. The sequence unfolds backwards through the layers.
Outline and paint the centre stars. Paint the dark spots onto damp silk without an outline and dry quickly.
Paint the leaves area yellow-green. Draw in their centre veins with clear water-soluble gutta. Mottle, shade and outline the leaves in turn.
Paint the background last.
Tulips
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3. “Tulips” |
4. Working Drawing |
Start by using a template to vein the petals of the first flower indicated by (1). You can omit the template and paint the flower without veins.
Paint the lower half of the first flower with darker tones of colour. Outline the first petal indicated (1).
Apply shading around the base and sides of the outlined petal. Shade and outline the petals in turn.
Paint all the similar coloured flowers in the same way working backwards through the picture.
The sequence unfolds from light to dark coloured flowers. Do not stencil every flower - paint some without veins. Deal with each flower a petal at a time.
Paint the background and the shadows before outlining and painting the stems. Keep the colours harmonious.
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5. “Arum Lilies” |
6. Working Drawing |
Start by outlining with clear water-soluble gutta the stems, leaves and the two turned petal edges as shown by red lines on the design. The background will be white.
Apply pale yellow and green-grey shading against the petal edges and around the base of the first flower (1).
Outline the rest of the flower, its vein and centre spike. Shade the tip and vein. Paint and shade the spike.
Deal with all the flowers and buds in the same way.
Paint the leaves and stems very pale green. Shade and outline the flower stems. Outline and shade the turned edges of the right hand leaf. Outline and shade the veins. Outline the leaf where it overlaps the second leaf.
Deal with the second leaf in the same way as the first.
