Vancouver White Caps
3 x 3.25 inches. Hand stitching on hand-painted silk.
These are some of Vancouver’s North Shore Mountains. I painted the sky, then underpainted the mountains and hand-stitched over them. The snow is sewn from thin strips of a FedEx envelope (Tyvek).
My favourite fibre to use for distant fir trees is serger thread, but I only have it in one shade at the moment. It covers the ground quickly with that little bit of bulk yet transparency that suggests trees.
Some photos of the climb:
Finally the summit. With thumb for scale