Hillary Miller
My name is Hillary Miller, and I’ve been happily painting with Dharma’s silk products since 2002. Featured here are original hand-painted silk scarves, shawls, banners and tallitot (Jewish Prayer Shawls). Silk painting is my newest medium – I also paint in watercolor, oil and pastel. I received a Bachelor's Degree in Art, with emphasis in drawing and painting as well as illustration in 1984, and a Master of Fine Art in drawing and painting in 1988, both from Cal. State University of Fullerton. I live in Southern California in a beautiful wooded canyon with a lovely studio attached to my home.
I use Dharma’s silk satin charmeuse fabric, shawls and scarves for most of my pieces. I find that Pebeo’s water-soluble gutta is a great "green" gutta, as no dry cleaning is needed to remove it. I sometimes add concentrated silk dyes to the gutta for colored lines. As I love rich colors, my preferred dyes are Dupont, Sennelier Tinfix and Pebeo steam-set silk dyes. I employ an easy and versatile silk stretching system of PVC pipes and joints along with Dharma’s Chinese suspension hooks, which I learned from David Ludwig, another fine Dharma Featured Artist.
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We thought it would be a neat idea to showcase the work of artists and businesses who are using Dharma products, so we've been asking customers to send in photos and info so we can share it with you. If you use our products and would like to be included.
