Vignette
This picture is 2.25 x 3.25 inches, but the painted and stitched areas are smaller than that. The eagle-eyed among you will spot my almost invisible signature in the bottom left-hand corner.
Usually I do all sorts of colour tests and stitch-securing immediately off to the side of the piece, which I conceal behind the mat when framing. But I wanted to challenge myself to do a more “tidy” piece. The background trees, mountains and sky are painted, and the rest is hand-stitched. The boat hull is a piece of hand-painted ribbon.
I chose the name Vignette because of the way the picture fades in at the edges. But it seems that vignette is also the word for a boat licence in Europe. So, I’m making puns even without trying.