My Hand-Painted Silk Is Featured In Super Raw Life Magazine! Am I Famous Yet?

Finally!! My name in lights!!

Here's one of the pages of the magazine. That's the color-chart I painted for myself.

It helps me to decide on my color-schemes.

A corner of my studio and the art supplies - that I love!!

Trying not to use the same photos that are in the magazine,

I'll give you some of the steps of silk-painting.

New brushes!! Be still my heart!! I LOOOVE new brushes!!

To begin, I hand-washed the silk to remove the sizing.

Then the piece was hung to dry.

Next it was attached to the stretcher bars.

And the design was sketched on.

Then it was outlined with a resist.

Let the painting begin!

More painting...

And more...

And still more...

Yup. More.

The butterflies are the "Super Raw Life Magazine" logo.

This scarf was commissioned by, Michele Marie Jeppson, Editor in Chief of the magazine.

(And an all-around great gal!!)

And since she is a raw foodist -

And the magazine is about raw food (and SO much more!!) -

It was only fitting that the design should be raw food, greens, veggies and fruit.

Many, many hours later, the scarf was completed. And I was happy with the results.

(I'm my worst critic.)

After the dyes dried, the scarf was rolled between sheets of steaming paper.

Then it was steamed in a stove-top steamer, for three hours.

That makes the colors wash-fast.

After the scarf has been steamed, the colors are even brighter. Love that!

Then the excess dyes were washed-out until the water was clear.

And it was hung to dry.

The last step was ironing. (I wish everything was that easy to iron!)

And here it is - "Raw Food So Good",

14" x 70",

Crepe De Chine silk scarf.

And here is the gorgeous Michele, wearing her new scarf to the "Sundance Film Festival".

SWEET!!!!

Here is another photo of my friend, Michele, and her original scarf.

(The photo was taken by the talented, Bayli Shelton.)

Please go to this link, to get your free-download of Super Raw Life Magazine.

With your free membership you'll be able to access the current and past issues of this fabulous magazine! (I'm a big fan of free.)

That's Michele on the cover of the first issue. The girl lost... wait for it...

72 pounds in 75 days!!!! WOW!!

If you'd like to see more of my work, please take a peek at my website.

Thank you.

This is from a post about young children painting on silk.

(My little grand-brats.)

For more about silk-painting, here are some previous posts;

A special scarf for a special lady.

Going with the flow.

Thanks for your time, everyone.

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(Thank you.)

Signing off for now,

gabriele