30th March 2012.
This was made using
hand embroidery and a embroidery hoop. I worked on this for several hours! It
doesn't look it; but a lot of work went into this.I usedmostly long stitch as i
felt that suited best the texture of the birds feathers! I really like this due
to the vibrancy in colours & it looks life like! (which is what i tryed to
achieve as it was an 'observational' drawing. I much prefer to draw with a
needle than i do a pencil or paintbrush!
This swans head was
made completley on the sewing machine using free embroidery! The amount of
thread i used!!!! I feel though this gave a great weight to the fabric as i
covered every bit (even the white!) i find that white on white works well as the
texture then becomes important and obvious,which is an aim! i used indian ink to
fill in the black thread as it didn't give as big of a statement as this! i
quite like the outcome as it looks slightly cartoonised due to the colours not
quite blending but the simplicity and delicacy of the threadsreally capture the
softness of the swan!
The repeat pattern
on here was a combination of hand embroidery & machine free embroidery. the
beaks were done using hand embroidery to give a flash of colour and to make a
bold statement, wheras the the free embroidery black thread worked to outline the silhouette. The swans in
these dont contain as much detail as the previous two as my main idea for this
drawing was to focus on colour and the idea of repetition.
I was really suprised at how long they took but
i had fun making these quirky drawings...more to come i expect and hope:)
hopefully once they come back from submission i
will give these to my family :))
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