Description
Crook Peak from Wavering Down, Original Silk Painting
Crook Peak is one of the most recognisable landmarks in the Mendip Hills. Its crooked point towers above the Somerset levels to the South. From the top you get wonderful 360 degree views across to the welsh hills, glastonbury tor and the rest of the Mendips. Well worth the climb!
My paintings are mainly painted on pure Chinese habotai 8 silk with specialist silk paints. I start each work with a drawing on paper and then trace the image onto a piece of white silk stretched onto a wooden frame. I then apply a special paint called gutta, which contains natural latex called gutta-percha, over my traced lines. This creates a resistive barrier through which the coloured ink will not flow. I apply the coloured ink with a brush and use salt dropped into the ink whilst wet to created textured effects.
The finished painting is removed from the wooden frame, ironed to fix the colour in the fabric and stretched onto acid-free mountboard ready for framing.
The original silk painting will come mounted in white to fit a 40 x 40 cm frame (frame not included) with backing board and wrapped in cellophane.
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