silk painting: where did you think hippies came from, anyway?

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bowl of pale blue wash, with macropearl added, and a few squirts apiece of purple & turquoise lumiere.

bowl of pale tangerine wash, with interference red added, and a few squirts of pink lumiere.

bowl of green wash, with a squirt of an olive green/olive lumiere/aztec gold mixture stirred in.

bowl of purple wash.

two little palette-circles full of full-strength sun yellow, and two of full-strength magenta.

soaked the silk in blue & orange, and followed up with the rest of the colors (ending with the full-strength) and then went back and blended edges with more blue & orange & purple.

day-um, that yellow and magenta done perked the rest of the colors *right* up.







The salt stuff is weird when used on a mix of intensities like this. It's muted into nonexistance in the blue, and very prominent in the magenta.





The edges are weird -- I think because the silk was *so* wet, it sagged in the middle & drew the pigment descended away from the edges.





I wanna do salt-treatment on a mostly-undiluted wash of vivid colors, with *lines* of tiny salt crystals; I wonder what that would do?