Tuesday 18 June 2019

Peonies


I went to dinner with a friend who has amazing taste, and she had a massive bunch of extraordinarily beautiful peonies. So for a thank you note and (late) birthday card I copied a photo of peonies in silk painting and made it into a card.

I traced the lines







Traced the lines and the lightest patches
 with gutta onto the stretched ponyo silk


Added the pinks, and decided on a dark green background
as the best for showing up the pink
The gutta was washed off and when dry the silk was ironed and mounted onto a card 
And framed it to cover the raw edges