I first saw this variety at Kew Gardens then grew them in my garden. The petals are like the feathers of a bird. A splash of colour to brighten a Spring day.
I painted this tulip on a beautiful medium weight crepe de chine mounted on a wooden frame. There was some gutta used as resist. The lovely thing about this silk is that the paint doesn't move as much as on a pongee 5 so is more like painting wet in wet with watercolour on a good quality paper, therefore there is less need for gutta lines. I was after a softer and more dreamy quality.
The finished painting is is stretched onto mount board and framed in a light hardwood frame with an antiue white mount.
If you are a silk painting and have only used pongee 5 do try some different types of silk and let me know how you get on.
