Louise Smith

Here’s a view of downtown Vancouver from the North Shore.  The sky is painted (poured on a shade of blue and let physics do its thing), the moon’s a swirl of gutta, and everything else is hand-stitched.  The twinkles are stitches in metallic thread.

I love metallic thread.  It’s just glitter for grown-ups.

The camera doesn’t see things exactly as your eyes do…it was hard to choose a photo that shows this piece accurately, when it changes so much depending on the lighting.  I decided to go with this shot with the water catching the light.  In low light the water looks darker than the sky.

Gosh that was a lot of little stitches.  Once you go to a certain level of detail on one building, you’ve got to do them all!  Go tiny or go home.  I hear my sewing machine calling me for the next picture or two…

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