Showing posts with label handpainted. Show all posts
Showing posts with label handpainted. Show all posts

Saturday, May 4, 2013

The Truth About Silk



Silk is perceived as a high maintenance, demanding
Expensive, high-class, and luxurious good
 
In the 80's silk was used for high-fashion and everyday wear.
You saw silk on high-fashion runways,
At the workplace, at parties, and at social functions
 
Nowadays people feel as if they need a
"Special" place to wear silk clothing to
 
The reality is that silk is very user friendly.
It can be chic and it can be casual
It can be worn to a wedding as well
As to the office, to a family gathering, or to go shopping
It's comfortable, it allows for the body to breathe,
It absorbs moisture away from the body and it drapes nicely over any figure
 
Also, silk doesn't need to be taken to the cleaners.
As a matter of fact, if you want a synthetic fiber to match up
To the lifespan of silk, you HAVE to take it to the cleaners.
Silk on the other hand need only be gently washed at home
 
As a silk artist it is my job to reveal the truths about silk
To my potential clients
However, it's very hard to convince people of silks durability,
Its usability and low cleaning maintenance
Because people have very strong believes about silk already
 
Sometimes I also feel like I have to fight the myth
That silk is for older people, for "moms", or for the aged.
Silk is for every age, every gender, and every lifestyle.
 
It has a very mysterious look, which makes everyone desirable


Sunday, November 11, 2012

Bewildering Art

Facebook has introduced me to many great artist and I was very fortunate to come accross the profile of Karen Hull. I was very bewildered and inspired by her work. Even though I know it takes a very high level of discipline to practice and develop such refined skills and sensitivity to detail, I can't help but wonder what kind of talent a person must have to achieve her skill. Using the most simple artistic tools and being able to create such sophisticated work shows how much an artist loves what they do. Her work also shows a thorough understanding of the relationship between her medium and her tools and what she wants to depict through them.

I have a great desire to find a silk artist that has Karen's skill and is able to accomplish the same sophisticated level of work on a silk canvas. Do you know someone?

Please visit her website. Karen Hull

I hope that you become as inspired by her work as I was.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Leyla Navab Handpainted Silk Jersey Ruana

100% Silk Jersey
Hand-dyed and hand-painted spring flowers




Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Tips on how to wear a scarf or a shawl by Leyla Navab

Wearing a scarf with any outfit will add color, fun, elegance, uniqueness, and flair. A pair of jeans with a plain top immediately looks chic by adding a scarf or a shawl. The always fashionable French people love silk scarves and shawls and know how easily one can pull an outfit together to make it simply sophisticated.

Any simple outfit with a scarf can become an entirely new outfit. People will think you have a new wardrobe by simply adding a couple of scarves to compliment the items you already own.

A scarf can be used as a pocket accent on your favorite blazer or jacket. It can be used as a hair accessory to keep your hair pulled back on a hot summer day, and it can become a fun sash to wrap around your waist.

There's nothing tricky or difficult about wearing a scarf or a shawl. A scarf with a simple bow is already very Parisian and fashionable. Simply draping a shawl around your shoulders is enough to make your outfit elegant and original.

There is no one way to wear your scarf or shawl. Have fun with it and enjoy it forever because it will never go out of style and you will always be chic.


Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Connecting Through Technology: Real or Not?

I visited Urth Cafe over the weekend and as I was scanning my surroundings, I noticed that most of the single people present were completely engrossed with their gadgets, iPhones mostly.

The statement I receive from observing this behavior is, "Even though I'm here by myself, don't judge me as being a loner. I'm "connected" to the entire world through my gadget. I don't have to look at you, to notice, that you notice my loneliness."

It's strange to be connected but at the same time not be connected. Like the picture below, regardless of the type of relationship these two individuals have, they were more involved with their computer than with each other. They arrived together, they sat down with each other, but there was a wall made of laptops between them. They didn't look at each other, they didn't speak to each other, and the guy even had headphones on.

Are we going to let these devices that are supposed to connect us take away our opportunity to look around? Are we are going to let them tell us how to be?

Connecting through technology let us remain "safe" and not show our vulnerability to each other. If we don't want to communicate with someone we can just "delete" them and pretend they never happened.

All this technology, online social networking, and texting have become the fastfood of connection. They are readily available and satiate your hunger, however, its's fake, has zero nourishment, and very soon you'll be feeling empty again.

I hope that one day we get to the point where our differences are seen as beautiful and not as a threat, so that we can connect in a true way.



This TED Talk is great Sherry Turkle: Connected, but alone?

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Shawl Collection May 2012

Nature during spring is amazingly inspiring 


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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

My experience at the Paseo Arts and Holly Fest

I participated as a vendor in the Paseo Arts and Holly Fest, which happened December 17th and 18th at the Paseo Colorado outdoors mall in Pasadena. This mall has a lot of space in between the retail stores and the booths were located in this space. The promoter was very nice and he had volunteers to help vendors set up and to take down the booths.
The name of the show has the word "art" in it but the vendors did not match up to the title. There was a variety of vendors and some were artsy and some were not. It also seemed that the people at the mall were there as frequenters of the mall and not because they were interested in the Paseo Arts and Holly Fest. I didn’t have any customers that were interested in art.

I do not consider this place a good place for artists because the retail stores were offering high discounts and customers wanted discounts from me, which I could not afford to give. I cannot compete with retailers. This was not a good show for fiber art artist like me.

This experience helped remind me how much I have to research the shows I participate in before I sign up.

However, I met a great artist at this show and I am so happy that I met someone like her.