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The first thing you need to know about silk painting is that everyone can do it. Some people do it better than others of course, but you do not need to be a gifted artist to be able to create a beautiful picture.
Sitting in front of a piece of stretched white silk with paintbrush in hand can be a daunting prospect for many silk painters. Paint and dyes have a life of their own once they have been let loose on the silk which is part of the silk painting magic and why it is so popular and exciting. However this is also the reason so many silk painters become disillusioned and are disappointed with the results of all their effort.
The Answer to Successful Silk Painting
If you want to be a confident silk painter and feel more assured of the results then you really should try using silk painting patterns. It really is as simple as that.
Silk painting patterns are hand drawn designs that you can trace onto the silk using a pencil. They are so easy to use and can be repeated over a long piece of silk to make large wall hangings or just used for simple projects such as sun catchers and cushions. Once you have your pattern you can use it over and over again for many projects.
If you have the confidence and skill draw the pattern yourself. Copy pictures from books or photographs, draw a still life, find something that inspires you. Perhaps you want a picture or wall hanging for a room in your house. Is there something in that room that you want the silk painting to reflect or do you want to theme a room around your painting? Use your imagination and find something that excites you.
Alternatively you can get ready made silk painting patterns that you can print off your computer and start work on straight away.
Now What?
Once you have your silk painting design drawn out on a piece of paper you will need to stretch your piece of silk onto a frame and tape the pattern to the back. Using a soft pencil trace the pattern onto the silk. Remove the pattern and trace over the pencil lines using your outliner/gutta/resist. It is very important that there are no gaps in your outliner. Check the front and back of the silk very closely and fill any gaps as necessary. Now you are ready to paint your silk and this is where it gets really exciting. Your plain simple silk will be transformed with a few brush strokes. Be careful though and watch for the paint bleeding through the lines. Make sure you do not overload your brush, a tiny amount of paint on your brush will normally do the job better.
There are many different techniques offering very different results for painting on silk. If you want to try these I would suggest you search for silk painting techniques on the internet or buy a book.
Once your piece is finished you will need to fix your silk using the instructions on your paint or dye.
I hope this article has given you some good ideas and maybe even inspired you. It really is the simplest way to silk paint and the results are fabulous and very professional. I sell my work through several shops using this method and I can use the designs over and over again.
My name is Gill Kitchen, I live in Ireland and I have been silk painting for over 10 years. My website offers silk painting patterns that you can print off right now. Please visit my site at http://www.silkpaintingpatterns.com/
Natural Landscaping Design
If we were to have a truly native landscape in Houston Texas it would look like an abandon field of various grasses, a thicket edge of tangled vines, shrubs and underbrush or a mature grove of oaks with leaf ground cover underneath. These landscapes are beautiful out in the countryside but in our suburban enclaves we seek some order and design. You say to yourself "it looks messy or it needs to be improved upon." Let's say that the first requirement is it should look beautiful to you. It is your interpretation of how you want natural to look. The natural landscape is really improving upon the existing natural conditions and making it even better into our own liking. On the most wooded of lots in Piney Point and Memorial the issue becomes "how to work with and plant under all this shade?" There is an aesthetic, a blend of the existing and the things we can improve upon based on the comforts, functions and the necessary uses of the site- a landscape design marriage. In the natural landscape interpretation we take the best of natural site elements and make it even better still based on the concept of form, function to house comfort and beauty. So now that we know the natural landscape is by no means native or natural what is it?
Nature as Inspiration
The natural landscape designer will first and foremost pay attention to the "sense of place" and "mood" of the site and its relationship with the house. Inspiration can come from the existing site or from vacations and travels throughout the natural world. Are there a grove of fantastic trees in the rear lawn, a view out the backyard to the Bayou that should be preserved or a large back lawn of beautiful old Pecan trees? On a new site you may borrow a nature inspired vision from a place in the wild that you want to recreate. For example a flagstone patio under a soaring oak tree that reminds you of a cliff or hillock in Ireland. Highlight the best features of the sight and down play those not so attractive. The natural landscape will be more sympathetic to working with the site rather than changing it. Work with the existing site features, trees, or existing woodland edges rather than imposing a specific "shape" or "design" as in classical landscape design or formal landscape design.
Interpreting Natures Hardscape
The landscape design for the natural landscape has the same overall approach to the form and functionality of outdoor rooms and spaces as all of the other landscape styles. The overall design can be formal or informal. One design concept for the natural is to create more formal hardscape spaces and surfaces near the home and to dissipate into more natural spaces and surfaces as you move away from the house. In this approach you are creating a hierarchy of spaces and pathways:
• Luxury Swimming Pools-materials might include slate and natural stone coping and surfaces to create a refined rustic overall feel.
• Walkways and pathways-materials including cut stone, wood, pavestone, gravel and cobble or small stones and boulders.
• Landscape Lighting-to light up existing large trees or path lighting and accent lighting for natural flagstone pathways and features
• Fencing and gates-made of split cedar for a rustic natural look
Interpreting Natures Landscape
The landscape design can reflect the patterns of natural plantings in nature. We have found that plantings in larger masses and groupings as opposed to natural associations are just easier to maintain over time. Natural patterns and plant masses can be utilized creating a natural look as follows:
Patterns of Nature. Nature groups compensating plantings in terms of drifts which can be interpreted as natural curves and arc of plant materials.
Plant Associations. Plant groupings that grow together such as grasses, roses and flowers in full sun, small ornamental trees at woodland edges such as red buds, dogwoods, and deep shade areas of longleaf pines, with ferns below. The design layout of planting is still based around the form and function of use areas and the layout of hardscape surfaces.
Conclusion
The goal of the natural landscape is truly an interpretation of nature and our attempt to represent our reality of beauty and bring about its very best features. In the traditional landscape design sense the home and landscape still function in relation to your wants and needs for form, function and your ideal of natures canvas.
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Jeff Halper is passionate for Landscaping and wants to share information about that passion. At
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