Elizabeth Culmer (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
edenfalling) wrote2004-06-23 10:32 pm
edenfalling) wrote2004-06-23 10:32 pm
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silk painting
Gutta-percha resists. Wax resists. Steam-set dyes. Iron-set dyes. Paints vs. dyes. Oriental vs. French styles. Frames. Original silk texture vs. leaving colored resists on the fabric.
Man, silk painting is complicated!
*delays writing Ekanu ficlet while she researches this some more*
If it weren't so marvelously entertaining for me, I might regret making Darei Ko'en a silk painter. But I have his studio in my mind, and his father's silk printing textile factory thingy (which is hovering at the early end of a sort of Industrial Revolution -- they have the rollers, but they're hand-powered since the shop is in a city, and they still make the really high-class fabrics completely by hand), and a scene where Darei explains about windows and mirrors and lamps and the ways to set up special lighting by covering them with thin swathes of colored fabric or glass, and his tables for mixing his dyes and paints to get exactly the right shade, and his brush stands, and it's just WAY too late to back out of this now.
Plus, silk painting is just cool. I kind of did some once back in a junior high art class, but I never got around to setting the dyes. And it was just a dinky little handkerchief. But it was fun.
Which is kind of how this whole ficlet started.
*bumbles happily off to learn some more*
Man, silk painting is complicated!
*delays writing Ekanu ficlet while she researches this some more*
If it weren't so marvelously entertaining for me, I might regret making Darei Ko'en a silk painter. But I have his studio in my mind, and his father's silk printing textile factory thingy (which is hovering at the early end of a sort of Industrial Revolution -- they have the rollers, but they're hand-powered since the shop is in a city, and they still make the really high-class fabrics completely by hand), and a scene where Darei explains about windows and mirrors and lamps and the ways to set up special lighting by covering them with thin swathes of colored fabric or glass, and his tables for mixing his dyes and paints to get exactly the right shade, and his brush stands, and it's just WAY too late to back out of this now.
Plus, silk painting is just cool. I kind of did some once back in a junior high art class, but I never got around to setting the dyes. And it was just a dinky little handkerchief. But it was fun.
Which is kind of how this whole ficlet started.
*bumbles happily off to learn some more*