July 11th Issaquah Artwalk is today! Plus Silk Bookmark Tutorial.
Hi All!! I wanted to remind everyone that today is the Issaquah Artwalk from 6-9pm. There will be live bands, a variety of foods and craft items to purchase - along with the art of course! Here is a small pile of the painted silk scraps I have I'm busy getting my paintings ready to show and I'm also experimenting with other ways to use my silk. I end up with a lot of painted scraps which are quite pretty but very small. Some I've turned into greeting cards (and I keep using them for gifts so I don't have any to sell), but I have a bunch of even smaller scraps and it's taken me a while, but I finally realized that I can make bookmarks out of them. The scraps cut into bookmark-width strips My scraps can be left over from edges of paintings, or torn up paintings that I didn't like, or even my test-strips where I paint samples of the dye to make sure my colors are correct before I put them on my actual paintings. So my steps are...