Blue Cat Back
I'm submitting this piece to the Jerwood drawing prize this year...
It's a backstitch redrawing of my own drawing that Muriel kindly printed on to cotton for me. It has a gouache wash and the thread is a wonderful shiny pale blue embroidery thread, that picked up the paint colour as I stitched (it was all over my fingers/clothes/everything - and no, I hadn't anticipated that!) Happily this accident created all sort of textural detail in the stitch that I would never have thought to make happen, so it's all good really.
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(I got a print made of the original line drawing, the print's on etsy. I'll make prints of this version, whenever I get it back.)
Blue Cat Back
I'm submitting this piece to the Jerwood drawing prize this year...
It's a backstitch redrawing of my own drawing that Muriel kindly printed on to cotton for me. It has a gouache wash and the thread is a wonderful shiny pale blue embroidery thread, that picked up the paint colour as I stitched (it was all over my fingers/clothes/everything - and no, I hadn't anticipated that!) Happily this accident created all sort of textural detail in the stitch that I would never have thought to make happen, so it's all good really.
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(I got a print made of the original line drawing, the print's on etsy. I'll make prints of this version, whenever I get it back.)