painting the lining
This is the second episode of a series documenting the creation of a wedding dress for my best friend K. You can see the original concept illustration here and the mockup of the bodice here.
I am painting the lining of the dress as well. I haven’t painted on silk in well over a year and I need the practice.
First I cover my cutting table with plastic and then I stretch the silk out like so…
I pencil on my pattern pieces so I know where to start. The bodice is mostly blue and a little green.
Playing around with the colours and effects… salt looks neat…
Transitioning from blue to green for the skirt…
The green goes goldish towards the hem. About now I start rethinking the order I want to apply the colours and start adding more water and mixing up my paints.
Now it’s getting to be a bit of a mess as I am overworking it. Alas there is no Ctrl+Z in painting. It is just the lining so it will get covered up. Though I am considering redoing it…
Expect to see a lot more of this kind of thing for the next little while. Prepping the fabric will be the longest step of the process for this dress.
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I love the picture where you transition from blue to green, with all the big dots. It’d be fun to stop there, cut out the coloured parts and throw in on a base of netting for a sweet tea dress.
The whole process looks like a lot of fun!
I actually really like the muddly-ness in the last photo. Maybe it’s because I’ve always prefered the look of fabric dying over painting! It’s going to be a beautiful dress.
Looks good so far. I don’t really see it being muddied up. Good job.
At first look I thought you were into weaving. But when I read your blog from start to finish I realized what a magnificent wedding dress you’re making!
I have this favorite shirt with the same color of prints on it – lime green combined with electric blue print that says P-O-S-H. I love the color combination and so it became my favorite color.