{"id":1018,"date":"2011-07-24T20:29:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T04:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2023-08-13T07:12:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T15:12:14","slug":"street-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1018","title":{"rendered":"Street Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/gallery-sa.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1030\" title=\"Street Art\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StreetArt-FCA-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StreetArt-FCA-223x300.jpg 223w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StreetArt-FCA-762x1024.jpg 762w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/a>The street in question is Hornby Street in downtown Vancouver. The art would be the tree, but is also a reference to Vancouver Art Gallery in the background. \u00a0I was struck by how gorgeous this and other trees around the gallery looked on a sunny day back in May.<\/p>\n<p>After hand-painting the background, I used free motion machine embroidery to represent the mulched soil in the foreground. \u00a0The tree trunk and branches are also worked in free motion with a little hand-sewing here and there.\u00a0 With the trailing twigs, I found the less I cared about how they should go, the better they looked.<\/p>\n<p>As described in my previous post, I hand-painted a bunch of narrow ribbon strips for the leaves of the tree. Then I hand-stitched the greenery using ribbon instead of thread. Thankfully, silk is less fragile than it looks!<\/p>\n<p>This picture changes depending on the light more than most. \u00a0In the evenings under a spotlight, the sheen of the ribbon comes into play, hopefully to capture something of the sunlit glory of the tree as I saw it that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The street in question is Hornby Street in downtown Vancouver. The art would be the tree, but is also a reference to Vancouver Art Gallery in the background. \u00a0I was struck by how gorgeous this and other trees around the gallery looked on a sunny day back in May. After hand-painting the background, I used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1542,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/1542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}