How to Paint a Mandala on Silk Using Proven Silk Painting Techniques

If you have ever felt drawn to mandalas, then you are in very good firm with me. I am a silk artist and have spent the previous 15 years painting mandala art on silk, generating my personal own fashion and imagery with vibrant colours. This art type is also incredibly therapeutic and can a lot of applications in the field of healing. You may possibly know that mandalas are superb aids for meditation and relaxation and so this write-up shares with you how you can generate your personal personalised mandala on silk for that pretty goal.

To get started with you will have to have some blank silk and a very simple frame. You can invest in oneself a compact length of habotai or pongee silk at your regional craft retailer or on line and four lengths of wood to nail collectively in a easy style to develop a square frame. You can attach the silk to the frame applying some drawing pins.

Purchase your self some specific liner in a tube to make the line design and style for your mandala on the silk. This will act as a barrier for the silk paints and give the style kind. I would advise having compact tubs of probably red, yellow, blue and probably a purple and black silk paint. Ask in the retailer for these paints. With this starter choice you can mix most other colours you would like to have for your mandala. You iron the dried fabric from the reverse and this fixes the paints into the silk.

Build confident you have a handful of clean watercolour brushes to paint your colours onto the silk and a deep palette to mix colours in.

So now you are generally going to use the liner to build a line drawing of the mandala and you will apply the paints afterwards inside the lines when the liner has completely dried. It really is a bit like colouring in but a great deal extra inventive.

Initially of all give your silk a speedy wash to take away any gummy seracin from the silk worms or other chemical compounds that could have got into the fabric. Subsequent stretch it onto the silk and never be afraid to pull on the fabric. It should really be quite taut. Leave it now a bit to dry.

Subsequent you are going to apply your line mandala. You can either trace by way of a mandala design and style you have made for this objective, or just draw one freehand on the silk. I recommend you mark the centre and draw a couple of concentric lines as a guide for your mandala artwork.

Now take the tube of liner and gradually and very carefully either trace along the lines of the drawing you have placed underneath the silk or begin to draw freehand on the fabric.

Leave your completed style to dry overnight and iron from the reverse Subsequent day. You can now colour in your design and style utilizing the silk paints. Let your imagination run wild. Be inventive.

Once more leave your artwork to thoroughly dry and when It really is, iron your silk from the reverse to fix the colours.

Your mandala painting is now prepared to hang.

If you would like to uncover out much more about my method, please have a appear at my detailed How to Paint a Mandala on Silk dvd exactly where I speak to you in the Initial half about supplies and then you buy a close up step by step video guide of me painting a mandala on silk applying verified silk painting tactics.

Fiona Stolze has been painting professionally on silk for quite a few years and prefers to work with vibrant, effective colours. She is also a certified colour therapist and has spent a lot of her time developing lovely silk scarves and mandala paintings to uplift and improve people's properties worldwide. Her gorgeous silk art work adds a touch of luxury and class to any property or workplace. Fiona published her mandala oracle deck, 'A Sea of Calm' in 2013. You can see a wide variety of her silks at http://www.silkandart.com