ROUNDED IMAGES ROUNDED FORMS WITH HAIRY OR SPIKY EDGES ROUNDED ELONGATED FORMS CRINCKLY OR SPIKY EDGED FORMS GLOBULAR FORMS THIN GRASSY SHAPES I made a greyscale copy of this tulip to enhance the shadows before drawing and stitching STITCHED TULIP THE STYLE OF CEFYN BURGESS I finally settled on the honesty flowers and seedheads for...
Category: Work from Courses and Workshops
selection of fabrics and photo of me at work
These are some of my fabrics, all of which I have used and stitched in the past.
Chapter 10 – Colours, line and texture
I really enjoyed doing these samples and feel a lot more confident that I can make the machine stitch where I want to go. Not yet perfect, but better! I found this old photo of mine and thought it had possibilities, but after a couple of drawings I simplified it into the design below. I...
Chapter 9 Playing with colours, building layers
Samples 1 and 2 – The colours are quite stark, with well defined lines. The narrow lines give more interest by breaking up the blocks of colour. 3 and 4 – The lighter touch of the automatic patterns gives a much more subtle effect. The complementary colours in the lower sample are dynamic together, yet...
chapter 8 – additional line and mark making work
The top sample uses only stitch to try and capture the different colours and fissures of the ice. In the second sample I used a piece of dyed scrim to give a more textured approach, but it was more difficult than I thought as, of course, the stitches immediately compress the texture. I used free...