{"id":11411,"date":"2018-12-11T09:04:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T09:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=11411"},"modified":"2018-11-26T22:18:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T22:18:41","slug":"from-watercolour-to-embroidery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/11\/from-watercolour-to-embroidery\/","title":{"rendered":"From Watercolour to Embroidery"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Watercolour<\/a>

Watercolour : Silk Flowers at Paynesville<\/p><\/div>\n

This vase of flowers was on the table in a motel room we stayed in, many years ago. For some reason they caught my eye, and for our whole stay – which was full of activity and outings – I wanted to paint them. But we were never in the room for long enough during the daytime.<\/p>\n

Finally, on the morning we were going to leave, I got out my paints, sat down, stared very hard, and painted this. I’ve noticed that if I really want to paint something, it often works much better than paintings I’ve done because I want to practise painting.<\/p>\n

I don’t think I even bothered to take a photograph. Everything I wanted to remember about the vase is in the painting.<\/p>\n

When we got home, however, it seemed to me that the painting offered possibilities as the basis for a simple embroidery.<\/p>\n

\"Embroidery<\/a>

Embroidery based on the watercolour<\/p><\/div>\n

A very simple embroidery, but, as you see, making use of a variety of stitches.<\/p>\n

The vase was textured glass, not clear, and I represented that using lines of coral stitch among the stem stitch. I didn’t work it more densely, because I wanted it to have a certain lightness of touch.<\/p>\n

The twigs were very rough and twiggy, so I used scroll stitch.<\/p>\n

Finally, the simple shapes of the flowers were best represented using my neatest and most careful satin stitch. All I really wanted from them was the colour.<\/p>\n

I haven’t the vaguest idea what to do with the embroidery, so I’ve laced it over a board to keep it tidy. But I thought you might be interested to see one of my very rarest stories – I know other designers often do detailed watercolours of their designs, but it’s not how I work. More often, I have a rough idea in my head, and work on each element while I’m planning the details of the next, waiting for the piece to tell me what it wants.<\/p>\n

This has turned out well, but I’m still slightly bewildered that it happened at all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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