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Basic Brush Work
- Hold your brush as you would hold a pencil
- Dip your brush in the paint and let it soak up a lot of paint.
- Wipe it gently on the side of the jar a few times so that it does not
drip. It is better
to dip your brush more often, than to take up so much paint in one go
that it drops
onto your silk in the wrong places. However, do not leave so little
paint on the brush
that you get steaks.
- While painting with one colour, dip your brush only into the paint,
not into water,
as this would dilute the paint and cause streaks.
- Wash your brush thoroughly in clean water between colors. A good
alternative is
to use one brush each colour, this conserves paint as well as ensuring
clear colour.
- Leave the boarder to paint last.
- Start by painting the lightest colour, so that if the paint bleeds
through or goes over
the gutta lines, you can cover the mistakes with the darker paint.
- Begin the areas closest to you and turn the frame around to reach the
others,
unless you are painting a picture which you find hard to do upside-down
and
sideways. Note: Do not tilt the frame as you turn it if you have very
wet paint on it.
The paint may run over the edges of the gutta if you do this.
- Paint one area at a time and use large brush for larger areas, and a
small brush for
smaller areas.
- Have just enough paint on your brush. If you find you have painted
too much
paint into a small area, wipe the excess off carefully with the corner
of a tissue, rag
or cotton bud.
- Place your brush in the middle of an area rather than close to the gutta lines.
- Do not press down hard: let the paint do the work for you. One of
the most
satisfying qualities of silk paint is that you just need to touch the
silk with your brush
and the paint will travel across the fibres to fill in the corners for
you.
- Paint in smooth, slow strokes, suiting the length of the stroke to
the size of the
space.
- Add each new brushful of paint right next to the last one on the
silk. Do not
leave big gaps between, as it is harder to make the two blend together
if you do.
- Blend new paint into the last painted area with plenty of brush
strokes.
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