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Lupine Flowers

 

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Colorado is so beautiful! This picture was taken last year in Vail. We were enjoying beautiful weather, scenery and flowers while our fellow Oklahomans were suffering through heat and drought.

CKRLike the Woodland Sunflowers from a previous post, I used these purple Lupine flowers as inspiration for a painted scarf.

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I mixed up some sodium alginate to use as resist but I made it too thick.  (I was pretty impressed with myself that I was able to mix it at all!)   You can see that the line kept its color very well.  However, in several places the line was so thin that the dye bled through.  In spite of its imperfections, I still really like this piece.

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Sunflowers in Blue

DSC00069Here are some more of those Woodland Sunflowers from Vail, Colorado.  This time they are painted in blue.

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I dyed SilkPaint! brand resist to make dots in the centers of each flower.  After it was steamed and washed twice, some of the centers still seemed a little stiff.  I don’t know if the stiffness will wash out eventually.

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Woodland Sunflowers in Vail

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Last summer I had the privilege of visiting the Betty Ford Alpine Gardens in Vail, Colorado.  It was beautiful!  When I took some pictures of the flowers there, I had no idea I would be turning those pictures into silk paintings.

I’ve looked and looked on the internet to find a name for those cute little yellow flowers.  The closest I could come up with is Woodland Sunflowers.  I’m not sure that’s right.  In fact the Woodland Sunflowers I found on the internet didn’t have the two-color petals.

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I traced the picture of the Sunflower onto the silk.

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These pictures were taken before the scarf was steam-set.  You can’t really tell that the top is a light green color (really that should be on the bottom) to simulate leaves and the bottom (which should be the top) is light blue to simulate the sky.

This is my first attempt at using resist to create the outline of the flowers.

This scarf was given to my Dad’s cousin.  She is an artist and I was so honored that she wanted one of my scarves!

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