New silk-painting process
Many of my silk quilts started with a drawing in a resist, so that the shapes within the painting could be flooded with silk paints. This winter, I was looking for a more abstract way to paint silks. The Gelli plate and some water-soluble crayons provided a faster way to generate colorful silks with the potential for Zentangle® designs and other patterns. Once the fabrics were ‘built,’ I cut them up to make a very traditional quilt block.
I seem to like the contrast between the busy hand-painted or marbled fabrics and more typical quilting cotton prints. 