RIPPED OUT WORK

Well, I went back to work and as a result had to rip out my work three times. I could not decide on a color. Then the yarn seemed too thick. Embroidery is slow but when you are sick it is tediously slow! It is rather difficult to see the embroidery in this first image. It is done with gray yarn and is working as a loose outline. I can't decide if I like the subtlety. Yes , no, maybe so?



Here you can see some of the stitching and underpainting. Notice the difference in color of the two images....the one below was taken with more daylight.



Messy workstation.



Ripping out black stitching from the back of the canvas.



Hope today finds you all well.

OUT SICK OUT SICK

















The Scream by Edvard Munch

Feel free to browse the site. Too sick to work. I'll post again in a few days hopefully.

My Women

These are images of portraits I have done recently but before the Smoot and Dreaming portraits. The first one is really a layer of latex dripped over an older painting/drawing I did not like. I left parts exposed to create the layered effect. The figure is done in trapunto and the edges overstitched. The flowers is actually a dried tulip and the red marking on the lower right is a wet-on-wet painting technique. It sort of looks marbilized. Another great site to read up on marilizing is Suminagashi.

In the next image, I pieced large pieces of canvas together with some cloth meant for quilting (the middle piece)....can't think of the name of that type of cloth right now. Anyway, I created a sort of negitive image. I purposely left the joining edges raw. I added the couched braid, done coursely on purpose, and the text was created on the computer, printed on vellum and applied.

All of this quilting, emboridery and beading on fabric is new to me but I find it very engaging. Whereas, in the past I was really focused on the portrait image I am now very much exploring the "quilting" aspect of the work.

The Pink Dress

I don't really know a whole lot about this dress but I like it. I will probably use this color scheme in combination with the "Girls" daguerreotype in yesterdays post. I also like to experiment with the ruching,pleating and other sewing techniques found on dresses of this kind.