Vicki Faulkner Workshops

Silk Painted Scarf
Sunday, June 12th 9 am – 4 pm
Cost: Cancelled

This workshop has been cancelled. Vicki needs to be home to sand bag her house and move stuff if necessary. We’ll try again next time!

Each student will have the wonderful opportunity to hand-paint a wearable or frameable silk scarf using traditional sumi brushes and water-based resist and your choice of up to 30 colors.

Instructions will be provided on how to outline your pattern with spirit-free gutta before you stretch the pre-washed & ironed silk onto the frame.

While that dries, you will have time to paint a sample silk project which will provide exposure to the dancing, migrating, flowing and color blending techniques which are the trademarks of one-of-a-kind hand painted silk art. Various sized salt crystals will be available to experiment with salt dispersion techniques.

Vicki will be using ultra-rich silk Charmeuse (this thick silk holds the most color), available in the 22″ x 22 ” size.

You may bring your own pattern outline (florals, animals, butterflies, abstracts, castles, birds, fish, an inspiration from a photo, etc) sized to fit the silk with or without a border design, or you may chose from several patterns that will be available.

You may want to bring an apron, snacks, a hair dryer (in case we need to compensate for a rainy day), an assortment of 3 to 6 water containers (anything will work e.g., jars, paint basins or plastic containers, as you will want to rinse out your brush often to avoid muddy colors.)

And finally, if you have favorite watercolor brushes, they will serve you well as they are made to hold water.

Vicki Faulkner joins us from Kalispell where she is an active member in the Alpine Weavers & Spinners Guild. She first learned to dye from Judith McCuin, Judie Overbeek & Joan Goldstein. Upon observing that everything coming out of Vicki’s dye vats and blended on her drum carder was a shade of purple, Joan challenged Vicki to move out of her color comfort zone. Yikes; orange & yellow & red, oh my! If Judith could identify hundreds of shades within a color family, Vicki knew it was time to increase her color knowledge beyond the standard box of 8 crayons. Newly armed with a color wheel, she set about to discover how color ways act. She was a couple of hundred dollars into tubes of gorgeous watercolor paints when she discovered via the pigment codes, that all the beautiful pinks, peaches, apricots and fuchsias were blends of pigments that she could mix herself. So this is how color happens! It was during Laurel Orthmeyer’s class that she discovered that painting on silk was much like painting with watercolors. Dancing colors on luxurious silk; thus began her journey.