Preparation: Choosing a Colour Scheme and Making a Frame
If you are using pencils and paper to sketch a design, use coloured
pencils to try out
colour schemes. This is a fairly long drawn out way of going about it,
and you may prefer to
do a test piece.
Making a Frame
Use inexpensive pine planking bought cut to size from timber merchant.
Nail the
frame together with the planks side on. This will give a narrower edge
so that less silk is
wasted and there is less likelihood of paint running along the wood to
places where you do
not want it to go. It also suspends the silk well above the table.
If you will be using the frame over again, strengthen it by screwing
brackets into the
corners. If you are making a long, wide frame, you will need to nail a
piece of woos flat
across the bottom in the middle so that the frame does not bend inwards
when you stretch
the silk. Cover the uppermost edge of the frame with shiny packaging
tape or masking tape
to prevent the wood from staining. The shiny tape is better, because it
can be wiped over
with a wet cloth to remove paint so that paint from one project does not
transfer to the
next.
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