more sketchbook pages.........

One of the things I was looking at with this sketchbook was how a change of colour could so totally change the look of a page and this is quite apparent with the free stitching on the gold and then overleaf on the black page further below.

free stitching versus straight (ish) lines

the loose tension in the black thread provided me with probably my favourite thing in the whole book

I decided to utilise two of my tags by including them, you can see the reverese of the white tage in the 'framed' picture at the top of this blog

to those that have seen this tag before forgive its inclusion but it has now become part of my Limited Edition Sketchbook as has the tag below

this one looks best held up to the light

this sketchwas for the tools of the trade required by those creating the clothes of the elite at the Royal Function from the first page in the previous blog


More pages soon.............

somethings keeping me busy

In a continuation of my honours work around tea, the activity and its associated paraphenalia here is a section of a piece I'm working on at the moment, its a represetation of  a busy tea shop in Lytham St Annes (although it could be a tea shop or cafe anywhere) and of all of the conversations going on around me. Some of the conversations were obviously emotionally charged whilst others very low key and laid back. I am only on the second stage of this piece.

The overall size is 45 x 62 cm this section being 7 x 9 cm. The digitally printed cotton is a combination of two of my sketches and I am embellishing areas of the surface pattern to represent the various conversations overheard on my visit. I won't be posting the while piece here until I've finished working on it.
so far I've used cotton and silk embroidery threads with ink but have plans for the application of other naturals and organza with probably a further injection of colour with either dyes or paints...watch this space!