Enjoy designing and painting your own sun catcher and card at this #SilkPainting #workshop next Tues 3 Feb 10.30am #Blackheath #Greenwich
Everything included, No experience necessary
£55 per person, message Laura for info and to book via mail@laurahollis.com
The title “Sơn nữ (Mountain Girl)” frames this portrait as both individual and emblem as a tribute to rural life and the feminine presence within Vietnam’s landscapes. Working in silk, a medium that rewards restraint, artist Lê Thị Lựu builds emotion through gentle lines and layered, luminous colors, letting the background glow through each area. The softened contours are less like documentary description than remembered light that’s tender, protective, and intentionally quiet. The young Vietnamese woman is shown from the waist up with her gaze lowered carrying a calm, inward happiness. Her skin is light-to-medium in the warm wash of the silk, and her cheeks are softly flushed. Straight black hair frames her face in short bangs with two braids falling toward her shoulders beneath a pale headscarf. Her features are modeled with delicate transitions without hard outlines so light seems to rise from within the fabric. She wears a white sleeveless vest over a blue blouse, with a darker collar at the neckline. At her chest and lap, she gathers a loose bouquet of cream and blush pink blossoms intermixed with leaves and shadowy stems, painted in watery touches that feather along the weave. Some petals dissolve into soft stains while others are come from few quick marks, creating texture without literal detail. Lựu lets areas of the silk remain luminous, so the young lady appears to float forward from the backdrop rather than sit heavily on it. Behind her, branches sweep diagonally, and the landscape breaks into luminous yellows and cool blues, like sunlight in a flowering thicket. Small accents of coral and deep teal flicker near the lower edge, echoing the bouquet’s colors and drawing our eyes back to her hands. Painted in 1980, late in Lựu’s life, this artwork values interiority over display. Even if the sitter’s name is unknown, she is rendered as someone with an inner world that is present, centered, and unhurried focused on blossoms that feel like place and mood.
“Sơn nữ” (The Mountain Girl) by Lê Thị Lựu (Vietnamese) - Silk painting / 1980 - Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts (Vietnam) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #LeThiLuu #LêThịLựu #Luu #HoChiMinhCityMuseumofFineArts #VietnameseArt #SilkPainting #VietnameseArtist #WomenPaintingWomen
Small cat art doll, made from hand painted silk fabric, with a hand sewn face, whiskers and stripy tie. Made in Scotland.
A wee hand-painted silk kitten doll Barrett - perfect Xmas stocking filler, or just to look cute and keep close for when you need a colourful cloth pet.
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#artdoll #cats #dolls #cute #psychedelic #silkpainting #catart #sydbarrett #julialaing #smallgifts
A vintage Chinese silk painting of two horses, showing signs of age and acid foxing. The artwork is mounted with a cream-coloured conservation mount inside a textured, dark Larson Juhl Patina frame."
This beautiful silk painting has had a very hard life. Decades ago, a framer in Hong Kong stapled it directly to chipboard, causing irreversible damage and discolouration. (1/3) #ArtRestoration #ConservationFraming #SilkPainting
Golden Tiger prancing happily through the snow. The snow is just indicated by the white area and the snowflakes as well as the sno-covered branches that mirror the look of the tiger's paws. The background is monochrome brown.
Today's favorite artwork is by Hokusai. I love this old tiger. He looks so smug while dancing through the snow. It is one of Hokusai's last works, he created this in 1849, when he was already 88 years old, shortly before he died.
#hokusai #tiger #artwork #silkpainting
Sonoseta always paints the eyes last..
"One wrong move, and days of delicate work vanish in a single drop of paint. But if my brush lands just right, the tiger awakens, and silk no longer looks like fabric; it breathes.. That one magical moment when risk turns into soul."
#silkpainting #art #tiger
Early silk batik with a recent weaving overlay. I’m interested in relationships of color and texture. Placing these together is a way of thinking and seeing what comes next.
#batik #weaving #mixedmedia #silkpainting #colorful #healingarts #painting #abstractart #decorativeart #crafts
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Honored to have my #tanka and
#silkpainting included in this addition
My exhibition catalog book proof arrived! Hyperventilating with a box cutter! My first book!!!!📕 #textileart #silkpainting #book #proofreading
A white translucent silk scarf clamped into a frame with sketches of Gale’s orb from BG3, an oak branch with leaves
A white translucent silk scarf clamped into a frame with sketches of Gale’s orb from BG3, an oak branch with leaves in the middle of the scarf. In the corners are the logos/ symbols of several BG3 classes sketched on paper and shining through the fabric. From upper left to right clockwise: School of Evocation Wizard, Druid Circle of the Land, General Wizard logo (book) and the oath of devotion paladin
I am cooking something 👀
#natureweave #greenweave #tavkarios #devotionweave #silkart #silkpainting #bg3art #galedekarios #galeofwaterdeep #galebg3 #worf-creates
Sold at Liberation Art Gallery yesterday! My tie-dye silk painted hoop 'Peony Small #1' has found a home. There are five other silk painted hoops still available to buy from the gallery and online 🌸🩷🤍
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#silkpainting #tiedye #inbloom #liberationartgallery #artsky
Painting on silk with dye in watercolor style a few years ago.
Share some of your past work today.
*Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has ever known.*
-Oscar Wilde-
#silkpainting
#art
#shareyourworkday
SOLD! Buyer in Arizona, USA.
#silkpainting #silkart #seaturtleart
TITLE: ATLANTIC SPADEFISH
SIZE: 30" x 40"
MEDIUM: hand-painted silk
ORIGINAL: One-of-a-kind
Were working on silk.
#lenamdy #visualartist #vietnamesartist #saigoneseartist #saigon #silk #vietnam #silkpainting
This is how I paint a sea turtle on silk. The silk is painted lying flat and suspended in the air inside a wooden frame.
#seaturtleart #seaturtle #silkpainting #silkart #silkartist #art #instaartist #marinelife #seaturtlesart
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TITLE: Akumal
SIZE: 28"h x 82"w
MEDIUM: hand-painted silk
PRICE: US$10,000
SOLD
#seaturtleart #seaturtle #silkpainting #silkart #silkartist #art #instaartist #marinelife #seaturtlesart
Woman running along the beach with an eel wrapped around her ankle and gold fishnet swirling around her. Blue and green water, purple and pink sunset.
My silk painting, "She Wondered What Was Holding Her Back," shipped to a gallery soon after I finished. Immediately bought a private collector, who I recently found out "has left us."
#eels #starfish #sanddollar #Seaweed #existentialcrisis #oceanlife #fishnet #silkpainting #fiberartistsofinstagram
front view of a person wearing a silk painted and embroidered corset vaguely in the shape of 18th century stays. the entire front of the corset is a depiction of a sunlit evergreen forest and a fox wandering along a path
back view of a person wearing a silk painted and embroidered corset vaguely in the shape of 18th century stays. the entire back of the corset is a depiction of a sunlit evergreen forest with 2 hares hiding in tall foliage.
collage of close ups of the embroidered fox and 2 hares on the corset
a little look at the finished woodland stays that i painted and embroidered #embroidery #silkpainting #corsetry #craftsky
Large painting of a green sea turtle created on silk.
#seaturtleart #seaturtle #silkpainting #silkart #silkartist #art #artist #discoverart #marinelife
Art Auction!
Someone has bid US$1,500. You still have time to bid. Good Luck!
#silkpainting #discoverart #marinelife #seaturtleart
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corset pattern pieces hand painted with a forest scene
corser centre front piece with painted and embroidered forest imagery
corset back pieces with painted and embroidered forest imagery and embroidered hares
painted and embroidered corset showing a forest scene. in the process of getting it's bottom edge bound with a strip of cloth
Been working on another painted nature scene corset #wip #embroidery #silkpainting #sewing
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TITLE: Kawet Point Jambette
SIZE: 30h" x 40w"
MEDIUM: hand-painted silk
ORIGINAL: One-of-a-kind
#seaturtleart #seaturtle #silkpainting #silkart #silkartist #art #artist #marinelife #discoverart
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TITLE: Kawet Point Jambette
SIZE: 30h" x 40w"
MEDIUM: hand-painted silk
ORIGINAL: One-of-a-kind
Two studies of the same turtle.
#discoverart #marinelife #silkpainting #seaturtle
Always fun to see your work up in your friends’ house. Garden guardian is a silk painting from several years ago. Getting ready to start a more figurative silk painting as part of a commission soon! Thanks to Audra and Mike for their continuous support!
#silkpainting #marigold
#silkpainting #discoverart #marinelife
Early work from 1998 in Saint Lucia
TITLE: Mother & Calf - 1998
SIZE: 42" x 77"
MEDIUM: hand-painted silk
ORIGINAL: one-of-a-kind
#silkart #silkpainting #batik #canada #discoverart
Art prints of Canadian landscapes painted on silk.
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