I’ve been playing around with silk painting for a while now, but only recently started trying to make impressions of objects using resist then paint over them. I’ve been experimenting with ferns this summer. I learned my lesson by doing a big scarf without practicing first, so all these experiments are on little 12x12 silk hankies.
The water-based resist sort of washed away -
The rubber-plant based stuff worked better - I did a couple layers of color and “stamps” then painted over with brown/red -
Then I tried a whole bunch of colors and added some mushroom stamps:
This is what it looks like after painting over it:
