Monday 11 February 2013

Woodland Pictures

WOODLAND PICTURES.
Having completed my City and Guilds Diploma in Creative embroidery and ,having had a rest from Textiles, I began to think about a new body of work. Inspired by the woodland scenes on Galle glass and Moorcroft Pottery designs I worked on anumber of sketches. From thes I produced a calico and vilene ' mock up' of a woodland scene
 


 

 

BACKGROUND
I began by painting the general background colours on to bondaweb and then ironed this on to the calico.
 
 
THREADS
I began to assemble threads and coloured organza in the coulours of Autumn woodlands.
 
 
TREES.
I experimented with fabrics for Tree shapes and eventually settled on layers of milliners net overlaid by sections of painted bondaweb from the background fabric.These sections were pulled into shape and stitched around the edge with machine stitching.
ASSEMBLY AND FINISHING
A curving path was made from crinkled organza. The bottom section was further defined by stitching narrow lines to indicate tree trunks receding ino the background and the formed net large tree trunks were placed on the composition. Shoots of grass were hand stitched and placed at the bottom of the large tree trunks. The tree canopy  was formed by stitching a variety of threads through orgaza layers fused on with bondaweb.  A setting sun emblem was constructed from flattend silk rod, orgaza and painted bondaweb while further distant tree tops were placed at the top right.
 
 
 
SURFACE DECORATION
In an echo of Galle etced glass and moorcroft pottery construction all the main elements were strongly outlined with close stitched black zigzag lines. The tree canopy was then further edged by long and short stitch worked by hand in a variety of metallic and silk threads. The outlines of the individual tree shapes were worked in a fancy fringed yarn, couched down through all the  layers.
The large tree trunks were further embellished by hand embroidered lichens and additional hand embroidery was used to give added definition to a number of features. The finished work is titled
 
WOODLAND AUTUMN SUNSET.
 
 
AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW
Having completed the Woodland Autumn Sunset picture I decided to employ the same techniques in a different colourway to give a different effect. This will be entitled
 
WOODLAND WINTER DAWN