Louise Smith

I took a photo of this dandelion-in-a-state-of-undress in someone’s yard in downtown Vancouver. The background was painted by pouring both green and white (also called medium) silk paint onto the silk at exactly the same time. Interesting swirlies resulted, so I was happy with that.

The stem is a green ribbon that I shaded with paint. It has a nice sheen that unfortunately doesn’t show up in the photo.

The seedhead is made up of lots of little stitches. The seeds are knotted thread. I gave each piece of thread a bad hair day, using a needle to separate the strands from each other, then glued them to the background with acid-free glue. I also stole some warp threads of silk from the rough edge of the piece and did the same with them. Those have a nice sheen too.

Finally, I used a little bit of white pastel dye stick to help highlight the seedhead, and a few dots of fabric pen to help shade the thread that makes up the leaves.

Fiddly but fun!

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