{"id":1310,"date":"2012-04-09T05:54:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T13:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2023-08-13T07:26:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T15:26:08","slug":"always-greener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1310","title":{"rendered":"Always Greener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1311\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AlwaysGreener-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AlwaysGreener-223x300.jpg 223w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AlwaysGreener.jpg 745w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BC locals might recognize this as the view of DeBoville Slough in Coquitlam\u00a0 from Cedar Drive.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite nerve-wracking to paint reflections! \u00a0But you have to embrace it at some point if you want to depict British Columbia landscapes.<\/p>\n<p>I painted the sky and the water first. \u00a0Then I did some of the machine sewing. \u00a0Then, alarmed at the oomph of the embroidery compared to the water, I went back and painted the water a stronger colour.<\/p>\n<p>The furthest-away of the foreground grasses are hand-sewn, some in 1-ply thread. \u00a0Then I machine-sewed grassy strokes and loops across those in thicker thread, to make the closer grasses look closer.<\/p>\n<p>This scene reminds me of the happy weekend I once spent doing the Minnekhada Art in the Park Festival, as you pass it on the way.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; BC locals might recognize this as the view of DeBoville Slough in Coquitlam\u00a0 from Cedar Drive. It&#8217;s quite nerve-wracking to paint reflections! \u00a0But you have to embrace it at some point if you want to depict British Columbia landscapes. I painted the sky and the water first. \u00a0Then I did some of the machine [&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\/1310"}],"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=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1525,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}