Camilla Morrison
  • About
  • Costume Design
    • The Music Man
    • The Tempest
    • Spelling Bee
    • Steel Magnolias
    • Seussical
    • The Importance of Being Earnest
    • The Moors
    • The Cake
    • Vieux Carre
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream - North Dakota Shakespeare Festival
    • Pump Boys and Dinettes
    • Silent Sky
    • Much Ado About Nothing
    • Noises Off
    • Hangar Theatre Design Fellowship
    • Ten Mile Lake
    • Passage to you
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream
    • Sweeney Todd
    • Antigone
    • Moon in My Memory
    • The Lovely Step Sister
    • Stick Fly
    • Grace
    • Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play
    • Speech and Debate
    • The Wizard of Oz
    • The Wolves
    • The Dance Class
    • Physical Theatre Showcase 2015
    • Carrie the Musical
    • Swine Palace Summerfest 2013
    • The Happy Elf
    • Psycho Beach Party
  • Costume Technology
    • Draper
    • Airbrush
    • Batik
    • Casting and Latex Prosthetics
    • Dancewear
    • Distressing
    • Dyeing Techniques
    • Fabric Painting
    • Marbling
    • Millinery
    • Pattern Drafting
    • Screen Printing
    • Silk Painting
    • Stamping and Using a Stencil
    • Tambour Beading
    • Transferring an Image to Fabric
    • Using Silicon with Fabric
    • Ventilation
    • Wig Styling
  • My Studio
    • NDCA Individual Artist Fellowship: Of the Earth
    • Nightmares are Dreams, Too

Silk Painting

Silk painting creates beautiful results with or without using a resist.  For these pieces, I used a water-based resist that would wash out later.  Silk needs to be pretreated with professional textile detergent and can be dried normally.  Then, your fabric needs to be suspended and stretched in some way so the paint will not puddle under your design.  These pieces were painted using the "serti" technique, which uses the resist to keep the paint in certain areas of your design.  Resists come in different colors, but for these pieces, I used a clear resist that would prevent the paint from crossing the line and would remain the original color of the silk, white.  After the resist is completely dry, you can begin to paint.  Wet-on-wet or wet-on-dry are watercolor painting techniques that can be used for silk painting as well.  You can also sprinkle salt onto wet paint to create an effect.  Silk must be steamed for one hour to set the paint before it is used for a decoration or put in the washing machine to wash out the resist.
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  • About
  • Costume Design
    • The Music Man
    • The Tempest
    • Spelling Bee
    • Steel Magnolias
    • Seussical
    • The Importance of Being Earnest
    • The Moors
    • The Cake
    • Vieux Carre
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream - North Dakota Shakespeare Festival
    • Pump Boys and Dinettes
    • Silent Sky
    • Much Ado About Nothing
    • Noises Off
    • Hangar Theatre Design Fellowship
    • Ten Mile Lake
    • Passage to you
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream
    • Sweeney Todd
    • Antigone
    • Moon in My Memory
    • The Lovely Step Sister
    • Stick Fly
    • Grace
    • Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play
    • Speech and Debate
    • The Wizard of Oz
    • The Wolves
    • The Dance Class
    • Physical Theatre Showcase 2015
    • Carrie the Musical
    • Swine Palace Summerfest 2013
    • The Happy Elf
    • Psycho Beach Party
  • Costume Technology
    • Draper
    • Airbrush
    • Batik
    • Casting and Latex Prosthetics
    • Dancewear
    • Distressing
    • Dyeing Techniques
    • Fabric Painting
    • Marbling
    • Millinery
    • Pattern Drafting
    • Screen Printing
    • Silk Painting
    • Stamping and Using a Stencil
    • Tambour Beading
    • Transferring an Image to Fabric
    • Using Silicon with Fabric
    • Ventilation
    • Wig Styling
  • My Studio
    • NDCA Individual Artist Fellowship: Of the Earth
    • Nightmares are Dreams, Too