Hand Painted Silk Scarves and Ties | UK Artist Barbara Meynell
Now non-essential shops are open again it’s time to start painting scarves again for my outlets. I’ve been having a creative four months, painting with oil and cold wax medium, playing with acrylics and sewing with free motion machine embroidery … Continued
I always take a sketching kit away with me that consists of a small box of hard pastels, a charcoal stick, sketching pens and paper. I do a tonal sketch with notes about colours and a colour sketch if I have … Continued
Ice Dyeing Experiments I seized upon the technique of ice dyeing to solve a problem. I had a box load of good quality twill silk scarves that didn’t look good with wax resist. Twill is a dense weave so the … Continued
Original Pastel Artwork There’s nothing like an exhibition deadline for motivation so I worked at developing my pastel techniques and eventually produced some artwork this summer. It was all helped by attending a great course run by Sarah Bee, an … Continued
Materials for Painting a Silk Scarf. It’s really quick and exciting to create a design on a silk scarf using hot wax as a resist. I tried gutta resist once but failed miserably as it’s hard to keep up the … Continued
