{"id":12418,"date":"2020-03-31T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T08:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12418"},"modified":"2020-08-15T20:32:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T19:32:44","slug":"the-amarna-family-group-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2020\/03\/31\/the-amarna-family-group-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amarna Family Group – finishing the design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We left the design in a sort of semi-developed stage, and the next stage was to work out which border I was going to use…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Trying<\/a>
Trying Borders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So, the one on the right – no, the borders are too wide, and given the size I’m going to do it, they’ll take away too much of the design area from the family group. I do like that arrowhead design, though. I wonder where else I could put it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Amarna<\/a>
Amarna Family<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I started playing around with the widths of the borders a bit more (computers are very useful for scaling fiddly things like this – more new tricks learned!), and ended up with something I think will work. You can see that there are some details I’ve not quite settled yet, and indeed, I think I’ve decided to reverse the colours in the vertical borders. The blocky colours come from having used the computer to produce a line drawing, and then coloured it in by computer as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fabric<\/a>
Fabric with design in place<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The design is now transferred onto the calico, and coloured in with inktense blocks. Rather sloppily, I know, but none of this will be visible, and I will be tweaking the design as I go, in any case. This is just to give me a a better chance to keep track of which colour I’m intending to use where – that small section with Nefertiti and the two little girls on her lap was dismally confusing before I painted it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have begun to stitch, and just as I promised (threatened?), I’ve been recording my progress, and uploaded the first video to: https:\/\/vimeo.com\/402311907<\/a>. It’s about twenty minutes long, spliced together from several files, because my camera kept switching off. I did say it would be a learning experience! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope it will be interesting, and maybe entertaining, for you all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We left the design in a sort of semi-developed stage, and the next stage was to work out which border I was going to use… So, the one on the right – no, the borders are too wide, and given the size I’m going to do it, they’ll take away too much of the design… Continue Reading The Amarna Family Group – finishing the design<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[221,155,158,59,222],"class_list":["post-12418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams-of-amarna","tag-amarna-family-group","tag-dreams-of-amarna","tag-goldwork","tag-or-nue","tag-slowtvstitchery","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12418"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12701,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418\/revisions\/12701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}