Art Projects 2014

This is a 30" x 30" square hand painted silk scarf that I used as a decorative pillow cover. You can use it this way or easily untie it and use it as a scarf.

This is a hand painted wine bag. I used one of my YUPO paintings and mounted it on card stock for the note. The vivid colors of the hand painted silk and the YUPO paintings are a perfect match.

This is a hand painted silk eye glass case.

I spent one day making my own ink/paint stamps. The base is foam core and the shapes are made out of sticky back foam. They work beautifully with the Jacquard Lumiere Paints.

This is a sample piece of black silk. I used a make up sponge to dab on the gold dots and then used one of my home made foam stamps for the leaves. The Lumiere paints work very well for this black silk. The pattern shows on both sides.

Another silk scarf in the drying process.

This is a hand painted silk scarf that I thought would make a beautiful pillow cover. I would wear this , as well.

A silk sash scarf, sprinkled with salt in the drying process.

The hand painted silk scarf dried and ironed.

This is a velvet lined 4 1/2" x 4 1/2" wooden box that is perfect for mounting my hand painted alcohol ink tiles.

This is one of my 4 1/2" x 4 1/2" alcohol ink painted tiles mounted on a black wooden velvet lined box.

This is another silk wine bottle bag, painted and salted in the drying process.

This is a hand painted cosmetic bag. I used paints on a Gelliplate, pressed with large bubble wrap to print the background. Then I used a make up sponge to paint the purple and pink dots. A paint brush and some gold Lumiere paint for the accent decoration. Both sides are painted although the pattern looks different.

This scarf was ironed onto freezer paper. Then I used a paint brush in water to wet the scarf. I used Dye-Na-Flow paints in 4 colors then sprinkled the entire scarf with silk salt. The salt is what created these beautiful patterns.

This is the salted silk scarf in the drying process. The salt has created these beautiful 'under-the-sea coral-like patterns.

Silk salt effects created as the scarf drys.

This is a wine bottle bag hand painted with earth tones in the drying process.

The hand painted silk wine bottle bag dried and ironed.

A sampling of the different projects. A watercolor that my friend, Mary coached me through, A cosmetic bag, a cotton jewelry pouch, a Kleenix tissue holder, a wine bottle bag,