{"id":2938,"date":"2018-11-05T20:05:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T04:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=2938"},"modified":"2018-11-08T17:51:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T01:51:48","slug":"touch-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=2938","title":{"rendered":"Touch of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/threadedviews.com\/main\/gallery-9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2939\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Touch-of-Light-master-1024x934.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Touch-of-Light-master-1024x934.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Touch-of-Light-master-300x274.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Touch-of-Light-master-768x700.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Touch-of-Light-master.jpg 1722w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>5.75 x 6.25 inches, hand embroidery on hand-painted silk.\u00a0 A view from the ferry between the mainland and Vancouver Island.\u00a0 This one took a while&#8230;there was an apartment move since the last blog post, if that&#8217;s any excuse!<\/p>\n<p>The photo below shows an earlier stage of the artwork.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve used some thread, which I later remove, to mark the edges of the picture and also to give me a straight horizon line.\u00a0 This picture goes almost to the edge of my hoop, so it was important for me to see clearly where exactly on-stage and offstage begin.\u00a0 Especially because I like to try out my colours in the wings.<\/p>\n<p>I leave the thread in place while I paint the sky, because it physically stops my brush from blundering into the horizon line and messing up the white &#8220;touch of light&#8221; area.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2941\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2273-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2273-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2273-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2273-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I underpainted the whole water area, then stitched on top of it in lighter-coloured thread (Sulky machine embroidery thread, which I usually split into half-thickness or less depending on how distant the waves).\u00a0 The photo below shows where I probably stopped underpainting.\u00a0 Then I unpicked my edge thread and ironed the whole picture to seal the paint before starting to stitch.\u00a0 However, I did paint the sky some more after the sewing was completed.\u00a0 It often happens that the stitching ends up looking more intense than I expected and the background needs to be built up a bit more to match.\u00a0 Then I re-ironed just the sky area.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2943\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2283-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2283-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2283-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2283-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More water is on its way, in no great hurry of course!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5.75 x 6.25 inches, hand embroidery on hand-painted silk.\u00a0 A view from the ferry between the mainland and Vancouver Island.\u00a0 This one took a while&#8230;there was an apartment move since the last blog post, if that&#8217;s any excuse! The photo below shows an earlier stage of the artwork.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve used some thread, which I later [&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\/2938"}],"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=2938"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2956,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions\/2956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}