Centre of Attention
I hope you keep sunglasses by your computer! Here’s a larger version if you’re feeling brave.
After painting everything an incredibly bright shade of blue, I did machine sewing of leaves in the background. I thought I was going to be able to keep machine sewing the whole thing. (I often have silly thoughts like this about my pictures). Predictably some areas started looking a bit too casual, so I unpicked a little bit and completed the work by hand.
Quite a commitment as you then have to bring the rest of it up to the same level of detail. But I think hand sewing is a better choice to capture quirks that I’m not skilled enough to convey with the machine, like the thinning of a branch as it goes along.
I almost left a needle in the patient on this one! I searched my table until I knew the only place it could be was in the picture. There it was, hanging out of the back! Saved for the next operation.