Louise Smith

Here’s a duck in Beaver Lake in Vancouver’s Stanley Park.  There are beavers there too now, but we didn’t see them yet – just their teethmarks.

I used my water wibble technique to paint the far background.  Water wibble what now?  It means I get plenty of wet paint on the brush and let it doodle around on the silk how it wants.  The less effort you put in, the more it’ll look like water, in my experience.

The reflections of the grasses are done using silk paint that’s almost dry and with heart firmly in mouth.  Make a mess here, and all of a sudden you have more sewing to do!  The duck and grasses are hand-stitched, and there’s a little clump of free motion machine embroidery making up the grasses at the bottom right.

I’d sure love to see those beavers.  In the meantime here’s a Vancouver Sun article and video of them, possibly featuring my paddling friend above.

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