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Hello and welcome to Silk Painting for Wearable Art.
My name is Natasha and I've been
Silk Painting for more than thirty years.
I came from Russia where as a child I
craved to have beautiful clothes.
None were available.
So I decided by the age of 19
to make them myself.
There were no silk painting supplies in
Russia -- it was very hard.
You have it much easier if you have
access to the silk painting materials.
But it can be very enjoyable.
Doesn't matter if you want to,
you know,
produce the clothes for
yourself or your loved ones.
Or if you want to sell your finished work.
In any case Silk Painting
will make you very happy.
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My goal of producing wearable
art is of course to sell it.
Because there is not limit on how many
beautiful clothes a woman can buy.
Unfortunately this is not the
case with Fine Art.
Which I really love to do.
So, I support myself by producing wearable
art which I enjoy to wear it myself a lot.
And I put in an amount of time which allows
me to sell my work at an affordable price.
And I hope you can do the same.
The trick in producing Wearable Art
is to make something
which will look exquisite and rich -- quickly,
not putting too much effort into that.
Because you have to consider
the price of materials
and the Gallery's (reseller's)
50% of the retail price.
I tend to work very quickly and
you'll see it in the workshop.
You can produce this scarf within an hour.
Steam it and wear it
friday night for a party.
Sometimes I work on the several projects.
It actually makes a lot of sense
because one project has to dry
and I have three or four projects
stretched in my studio
if you have space, if it allows you
you can have a scarf going, a poncho,
and a tank top at the same time.
I'm wearing one of my pieces now.
I call this 'Tree of Life'.
And it has rainbow colors
with apples and different colors.
This is a happy contemporary piece.
I call it an isometric
or equal-sided poncho.
And behind me I have
one of my capes
and this looks like kimono almost here.
On the wall.
So, you can put it on the wall.
Or you can wear it.
And I'll show you what you can do with those.
In this workshop we will be working
on four different wearable projects.
First one would be contemporary,
a Scarf.
I call it contemporary
because it is inspired
by one of my favorite contemporary
artist Wassily Kandinsky.
And this particular design
proves to be the most popular.
I want to show you
how it is done.
It's not very difficult but it looks great.
The second one is a scarf.
I call it traditional.
Traditional flowers, grapes,
anything inspired by nature.
This one will be a grape scarf
and I'll show you
salt use on that one.
and the next project will be a large frame
which I use to produce ponchos.
I work on a 45 inch x 45 inch
square silk scarf
and you will see how this is done.
And as a bonus,
I want to show you a really cute
little piece.
It's a camisole, and it is
a blank and it's premade.
So, you want to see how
you can work on premade pieces.
There is a special frame
and a special way to do it
and it looks great.
So, let's get started with the Workshop.
