Square, small and smart! The 3 "S" scarves is here!

 Small yet functional

Were you ever in need of just a tiny add-on to your outfit, a detail to your daily resemblece to make a settled statemet, an eye-catcher that is stylish but not "too loud"?

Here's THE REASON for small scarves. 

They exist for this exact purpose: making you feel special!

Small square scarves.

This scarf was hand painted by me, on a small piece of silk (22 x 22 inches), with a deep blue navy shade for the tree silquette and dreamy teal - blue combo for the background. 

 See Thee In Blue silk scarf on Etsy HERE

This is a peacock feather. A magpie wing. This delicate yet beautifully balanced combo of colors works miracles, looking gorgeous each and every day.
A small piece of art to take with you, whenever you go. 

Detailed and shiny!

Semi translucent silk makes wonders with magpie color pallette.

Just look how smooth this scarf is!

Big Comeback.

So yeah, if you ever wonder if it's possible to forget about something for 3 years... Yeah, that's what happened here!

I got swamped with social media tasks and kinda drifted away from blogging!

The good news is I've got A TON of new scarves to share with you!

 

Forget Me Not silk scarf

Oh, this is one of my all-time favorites! It's big (180 by 60 centimeters) and soooo bluueeeeeee—it's just blue in a sea of blue-ness. Blue-madness!

 

Soft and see-through, a 100% natural silk

Front and back of the scarf are the same: the beauty of hand painted silk!

Close up for the Forget Me Not scarf: flowers are really big!

See how delicate and light the Habotai silk is!

The only issue I've got with this scarf, is that it takes at least 3 days to paint... while I can't move the easel from my table, it's too big.

And here's the answer to your question: why I am back today?

Well, the next Forget Me Not scarf is on my table, drying. And I'm waiting for an opportunity to paint the details once the paints are dry enough to work with!

The Forget Me Not scarf can be order on Etsy - at my MinkuLUL silk scarf shop here!

New blog & shop from MinkuLUL

With great pleasure (and trembling heart) I am inviting you to visit my newly developed stand alone shop: MinkuLUL.

You can still find my scarfs on Etsy MinkuLUL, but for obvious (fees!) reasons, it will be more expensive.

Please visit, take a look, stay & subscribe for upcoming newsletter... and shop, if you are in need for customized, hand painted silk scarfs (Mother's Day is coming!)

Hand painted silk scarfs available at minkulul.com

Tit Birds scarfs - which one do YOU like?

Painting Birds. 

I love painting birds, and tits are so adorable that I can not stop working on tit-themed scarfs!
I'm testing new ways of painting now, trying to decide if I like them better with white outline or with additional black lineart.

Tit Birds With Red Berries neck scarf 

This one is slim, with fiery red berries. I re-painted it recently, so I have some new photos. 

Tit Birds & Berries on Etsy - this one is ready to be shipped right now!

Tit Birds & Berries on Etsy - the 160 x 28 cm size scarf, slim and long.

Tit Birds On Blue

Re-painted last month. I like how subtle the color set is.

Tit Birds on blue - ready to be shipped on ETSY

Tit Birds in Blue - subtle and blue, very very blue :)

Tit Birds On White (my favorite!)

It took a lot of work, to paint black outline on such a bright background (very tiny and very dry brush painted extremely slowly) but the effect is almost comic-like.

Tit Birds In Snow on Etsy - my favorite!

Silky touch: lightweight and semi - transparent. Tit Birds In Snow

How do you like my designs?
Let me know in the comment!

As always, you can find all of my hand painted silk scarf on MinkuLUL Etsy shop HERE!

Painting stars on silk ... with milky way! *yumm*

The Star silk scarf

This scarf with constellations (really real, done them over a night sky chart!) and Milky Way galaxy was done as a special request on a pure silk in size 49 x 11 inches.

Silk scarf Stars on ETSY here

Silk scarf Starry Night with Milky Way galaxy on ETSY

How the scarf came to be? 

I love doing commissions! My customers always find themes or color sets that I would not think on my own, so it's really the best way to put your creativity and skills to the limit.

One of the first sketches, rough and quick but it spoke to my lovely customer!

We started with a few sketches, then we tried different colors and then... yup, I was facing the constellation map on my screen and later on a paper. I had to meticulously place each and every star of the zodiac signs to their rightful spot. It was a slow- going process, but totally worth the time!

Ready to see more photos?

Here they are! Note how the scarf is almost non transparent, but there's a delicacy and vibrancy of the pure silk. Oh, my favorite medium of all!

Starry Night scarf on ETSY

Starry Night scarves - the close up - on ETSY

Hello my dear readers!

I noticed that there is much bigger audience to this blog that I've anticipated! I am very grateful and I encourage you to leave a comment or a smile emoji or link to your blog so I could re-visit... I'd love to know who's visiting!

Here be Dragons! On silk!

Dragons on silk scarfs

Hello everybody! Today, I wanted to share with you my designs with dragons. I worked on the series for some time now and I must say painting mystical creatures gives me a lot of joy... but for some reason dragons seem to be the most popular among my customers.

Silk scarf yin yang Dragons 

A lot of details! A lot of scales. I really like the color set, and how it changes depending on the time of the day and type of light. Sometimes it looks blue - red, sometimes turquoise - orange. Funny! Almost like the dragons were actually alive!

Silk scarf Dragons on ETSY

Silk scarf Dragons on ETSY

Dragons In Love

This one is ready to go! Two dragons facing each other with two types of wings: one is angelic and the other is demonic. How do you like it?

Dragons In Love silk scarf on ETSY

Dragons In Love silk scarf on ETSY

Water Dragon silk scarf

How about this color set? Dragons should be green, right?  I rarely paint on square scarf, but this feel like a perfect fit, does it not?

Water Dragon square scarf on ETSY

Water Dragon square scarf on ETSY

Dragon Scales silk scarf

Red again! I recently purchased most vivid red paint so I'm on a red-painting spree! I was planning to paint scales for a long time and this seems to be the perfect color for it!

Dragon Scales silk scarf on ETSY

Dragon scales silk scarf on ETSY

By the way, do you know there's a legend about a dragon that lived in a cave under the kings castle in my hometown? Really!
You can visit the cave now (it's officially called the Dragon Cave) and you can see the monument of the dragon... which actually breaths fire! For some time there was a special number you could sent a SMS to from your phone to make him breathe fire and it costed like 1 Euro. It was crazy fun!

Tit Birds scarf hand painted for the Christmas!

The Tit Birds scarf

Don't you just love them? They are like little fluttering ray of sunshine on a gloomy winter day.
I was asked to paint a Tit Birds scarf and here's how it turned out!

Tit Birds silk scarf by MinkuLUL

I added some red berries to spice up the color set for this scarves. I like all blue scarfs, but a dash of yellow and a bit of red makes it pop (I hope!)

Blue Tits scarf made of silk by MinkuLUL

Tit scarf: yellow and red on blue!

This is a slim scarf: 160 cm in lenght but only 24 cm wide. It's a perfect neck scarf.

Neck scarf: slim and sleek! Silk for all seasons on MinkuLUL

 

I hope you will like this one! I love working with other people on new designs, so if you have an idea for a scarf, just let me know in a comment!