Bob in SF
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Some friends asked for handpainted wildlife-themed neckties.
Nice chance to work a narrow vertical canvas (like pen design, only different).
I used handmade acrylic paints - raw pigments ground into Golden GAC 900 fabric medium for handbrushing and Golden Airbrush medium (well-filtered after mixing) for airbrushing.
I sewed the ties out of solid colored silk twill (from Britex fabrics in San Francisco), inter-lined with medium/heavy weight necktie interfacing (65/65 wool blend, made in Netherlands, available on Amazon); using my own original cardboard patterns.
The trick is to use very little paint with feather-light brush strokes (barely touching the ridges of the silk twill necktie surface), thereby keeping the surface supple with normal drape.
Air-dried for a week, then gently ironed with a press cloth on silk setting.
They are:
Bettas, Saxony Bird of Paradise, Mother and Daughter Zebras,
Flamingo with Eggs, Hummingbird, and Suspicious Lemurs
Happy Sunday to all! - Bob
Nice chance to work a narrow vertical canvas (like pen design, only different).
I used handmade acrylic paints - raw pigments ground into Golden GAC 900 fabric medium for handbrushing and Golden Airbrush medium (well-filtered after mixing) for airbrushing.
I sewed the ties out of solid colored silk twill (from Britex fabrics in San Francisco), inter-lined with medium/heavy weight necktie interfacing (65/65 wool blend, made in Netherlands, available on Amazon); using my own original cardboard patterns.
The trick is to use very little paint with feather-light brush strokes (barely touching the ridges of the silk twill necktie surface), thereby keeping the surface supple with normal drape.
Air-dried for a week, then gently ironed with a press cloth on silk setting.
They are:
Bettas, Saxony Bird of Paradise, Mother and Daughter Zebras,
Flamingo with Eggs, Hummingbird, and Suspicious Lemurs
Happy Sunday to all! - Bob