Stitched pears…..finished.

Stitched lime pears.

Close-up 1.

Close-up 2.

Close-up 3.

Close-up 4.

Here is some stages along the way.

Step 1. Collage , ink and paint.

Step 2. Colour and stitch.

Step 3. More stitching and finished!

I’m quite liking the back as well….

…. you can see some of the pencil lines that helped me stay on track…..

 

 

 

 

Work in progress: Three pears and a pomegranate

Warm-up sketch.

Quick ink ad water sketch.

Three pears and a pomegranate so far.

Pear detail

Stitch and collage detail.

Stitch ‘cross hatch’ detail and punctures.

Collage pomegranate, stitching and puncturing.

Left over ink painted paper.

…..work in progress…..

Artmaking Part 1

Thanks to everyone who gave me feedback on where to start creating again.

These are some shots from the classes so far.

I was a bit out of practise and unsure so I spent some time sketching, using the inspiration you all suggested.

This is what the first week produced.

This image from decor8 became…..

….. a pencil sketch.

Image from the house of turquoise…….

…. this very ‘not really convincing’ pencil sketch.

I cropped the image from decor8 to become……

….. this little A3 collage (brown paper with ‘pencil paper’, charcole ad pencil. I am quite pleased with this one.

During the making of the collage I put a sheet of graphite carbon paper underneath as I worked. This was the result. Interesting as every mark comes out the same colour.

This image from ‘the bottom of my ironing basket’……

…..became this pencil ‘hatching’. Surprising myself a little by how much I enjoyed making this. I am pleased with the result.

Cross Hatched sketch.

During the second week I developed a couple of these ideas.

Using the pears and pomegranate I worked with crumpled handmade paper, collage, cross hatching, ink, pencil and stitching to start creating an artwork. It will take a while to finish….. lots of stitching to come.

The beginning of the A1(ish) work.