Silk Painting

This past Sunday I participated in a workshop with Elizabeth Yaari from Explora-Torah, http://www.explora-torah.com/ET/Welcome_.html  Elizabeth is an artist who actually teaches bible, or more accurately, bibliodrama that includes art in the form of silk painting or mask making. This workshop was for Rosh Chodesh, celebrating the new month, which in the Jewish calendar is Adar II. After the participating students took part in an activity where they pretended they were Jews from an earlier period who were responsible for watching for the new moon, so they could make sure they had the day for celebrating exactly right, we got to the silk painting activity. This was something that students, their parents, and staff were able to participate in, so of course I did as well. The theme for this project was sanctuary, more specifically, what is our personal sanctuary and what makes it so? From what I understand, traditional silk painting involves using wax to to make outlines for the images. We didn't have anything as fancy, just gold markers, so the paint is a little runny. 

  


My personal sanctuary is nature, which is odd because I don't like camping. Living in a city makes it hard to find real nature, which is why I appreciate it so much and do things like recycle, and conserve energy, and generally care about the environment. 




(Photo Courtesy of Rachel Rothstein)