In this issue, you have the chance to relive moments of silk painting festivals near and far! Read more about workshop teachers from the 2014 SPIN festival, with Tina Gleave and Susan Louis Moyer, and from Joyce Estes about her time abroad at the Isle of Man’s 2013 silk painting festival. In the article featuring Tina Gleave, you get her secrets on the seemingly impossible task of capturing light on silk. She takes you through her introduction to silk, some of her techniques and styles, as well as her deeper view of light. “Silk was the first media that understood me. I needed the variety, versatility to express myself completely that I couldn’t express in watercolor or pastels. The magic and iridescence of silk is addicting.” For those who missed her workshops on capturing light at SPIN’s festival, fortunately she teaches private art classes at the Eureka Studio Arts. You also get a brief tutorial on composition and balance, as well as the elements of design, led by Susan Louis Moyer. She gives visual presentations on different techniques from rules of thirds and rule of odds to image placement and contrast. Concluding this issue is an article that relives Joyce Estes’ trip to Isle of Man and her experiences meeting the members of the Silk Painting Guild. She recounts her unique time at their Celtic Kingdom Festival of Silk 2013 and what it was like meeting and forming relationships with international silk painters. “I was trying to reach out and pull other international organizations in and get more people interested in silk painting.” The festival members did more than share ideas with one another; they also went out into the community to enlighten the public about silk painting and to introduce them to a new art form. “It really was an open invitation to get them involved, as well as to display the artists’ pieces for selling.” Through technology, Joyce has been able to maintain her relationships and form new ones with international silk painters. You can continue these exciting journeys of festivals and learning new techniques by flipping through this issue of the Silkworm!
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