Screen Painting

It's officially summer - things are supposed to slow down now... It seems the past few weeks I have  been on 'high' getting ready to slow down! I have missed blogging - it's good to get back.

A few weeks ago the art league offered a class in screen painting. It sounded like fun - certainly something very different from my watercolor or pastels.

Painted screens were very popular in the Baltimore area years ago. Various scenes were painted on the outside of the screen. People passing by could see the painting, but not look in the window. From the inside, you could see out and not see the painting at all! Amazing really.

There were about a dozen of us taking the class that morning. We had a little history lesson about the screens and then we all started to paint. When the screen was finished. We painted the wooden frame.

I am not going to revel the secrets of how you paint on only one side - just know that we all had a great time. If you want to find out more, google John Iamperi and see what he does.

This is the back of the screen...

And, here is the front!