{"id":3195,"date":"2021-04-12T20:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T04:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=3195"},"modified":"2021-04-12T20:00:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T04:00:46","slug":"searchlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=3195","title":{"rendered":"Searchlight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Original-4-658x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3205\" width=\"306\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Original-4-658x1024.jpg 658w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Original-4-193x300.jpg 193w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Original-4-768x1196.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Original-4.jpg 1847w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>3.75 x 6 inches.  Hand stitching on hand-painted silk.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The background was created by stretching silk in a hoop and pouring paint straight onto it.  I prepared two colours, a purple-blue and a bright light green.  I saturated the whole surface with the purple-blue, then immediately held the hoop vertical and poured on the light green, letting it dribble from top to bottom.   It does this in a random way which creates a northern lights effect with no effort from me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here I&#8217;ve placed scrap paper to help me decide which part of the background makes a more exciting composition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7730-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3199\" width=\"276\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7730-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7730-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7730-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7733-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3200\" width=\"277\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7733-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7733-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7733-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> #2 was the winner for me.  The white ring you see around the edge is from the silk that goes unpainted while it&#8217;s bound inside the hoop.  It has a lovely sheen as well.  So I decided to incorporate that as an icy pond or area of snow &#8211; whatever you want it to be.  I&#8217;ve re-hooped the silk to let that be part of the picture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below, I&#8217;ve underpainted in black the areas where I wanted trees.  I use white thread to mark roughly where I think the boundaries of the picture will be.  It also acts as a guide to help me keep the trees generally vertical while I sew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8048-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3197\" width=\"496\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8048-300x272.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8048-768x695.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8048-1024x927.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The rest was a matter of hand-stitching in the same shade of black thread, thinned out to one strand for the distant trees and thickened, even doubled up, for the nearest.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3.75 x 6 inches. Hand stitching on hand-painted silk. The background was created by stretching silk in a hoop and pouring paint straight onto it. I prepared two colours, a purple-blue and a bright light green. 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