Leaves of Green and Gold
This one’s 3 x 4 inches and made using several techniques. The background is hand-painted on silk (I used gutta to keep the background silk white in the area of “white water”).
The trees in the middle distance are a mix of hand sewing and hand-glued thread lint (made by chopping up thread very finely). Then the foreground tree branches and brush are created mostly using free motion machine embroidery, with occasional hand sewing for details like the bright pink flowers.
This composition is based on a view of a tributary of Pitt Lake, British Columbia, but the finished picture is destined for a new home in Italy. Buon viaggio!