Desert Vista
2.75 x 3.75 inches, free motion machine embroidery and hand sewing on hand-painted silk.
This is a view of mountains north of Santa Fe, New Mexico, a wonderful destination for art lovers. I’d expected the city to be a bit barren vegetation-wise but it was a lovely surprise to see native plants all over the place, and plenty of birds and butterflies.
I used machine embroidery only for the foreground rock. The rest is hand-sewn – I used embroidery floss and even some serger thread to give me more bulk quickly. I chose colours that graduate from warmer and darker in the foreground to cooler and paler in the distance, and also used a few tiny dabs of white pastel dye stick on thread in the very far distance to help get a hazy look. You iron on the pastel to set it.
It’s been so long since I did a blog post, I decided to do two at once. The post below contains all you ever wanted to know about painting dandelion stems but were afraid to ask. Sweet dreams!
October 7th, 2014 at 10:50 am
Wonderful, Louise, as always. Sorry to say that I simply forget to look at blogs – So I haven’t be here for a long time. The dandelion is so beautiful with the blowing away seeds.