Silk Painting and other things…
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My baby girl is turning 3 tomorrow and it makes me a bit sad. I am certainly not clucky (3 children is enough, thanks!) but it is sad to walk through the stores and just walk right by the baby clothes and know that I am headed to the big girl section instead. I so love having a daughter. Emma is a gorgeous girl.
Do you remember this? This is a scrapbooking layout I did for a local art store’s competition - well, I was a finalist so I was pretty happy about that:
Recently I had a go at silk painting and decided to make something for Emma’s birthday. I have to mention that I didn’t draw the design, but I did think it would be perfect for a little girl. I framed it and it will hang in her room.
Silk painting is quite easy and fun - you wash and dry a piece of silk, stretch it over a picture frame with drawing pins, use a pencil to draw the design in and then use a tube of gutta to draw the outline. It’s very important to make sure that there are no “holes” in your gutta outline - hold your silk up to a window to check for gaps. Then you use a small paintbrush to add the silk paint and the gutta stops it from flowing beyond the lines. Once it has dried you iron the silk to set it and it’s done!
It’s a really good idea to get a feel for the silk paint on a scrap piece first.
Emma’s impending birthday (tomorrow) featured in my analog artlog entry too. At least now I understand why my own mother still calls me her baby!
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katrin Said,
Thursday, June 22, 2006 @ 4:41 am
how cute!
and your artful diary entry is as beautiful as always. this is, what it is: an artful diary
and you will always be your mother´s baby, even if you are 50, like my mom is. and she still is my grandma´s “child”.
still they will take care of everything, will cry when we cry and will be there for a hug when we need one (even if it´s only a verbal hug because they may be far away).
that´s what makes a MOM. that´s what is wonderful about them and what makes them special above all others.
surely you´ll always be special to your children, too. hope your family had a nice birthday-party and there were lots of wonderful presents
analog artlog - 19 June 2006 on Flickr - Photo Sharing! Said,
Friday, June 23, 2006 @ 5:00 pm
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