{"id":12538,"date":"2020-07-07T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12538"},"modified":"2020-09-18T17:24:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T16:24:08","slug":"more-on-the-amarna-family-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2020\/07\/07\/more-on-the-amarna-family-group\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the Amarna Family Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Daughter<\/a>
Daughter in blended thread<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

While I was stitching round and round in circles, I was also thinking about the rest of the design, and about what else it might be showing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had a thought that it might be nice to make a reference to the Cretan art that was so influential for the art of the Amarna period. One of the conventions of the art of ancient Crete was that women were depicted as light-skinned, while the men were shown as tanned, so I thought I would give that a little twist, and work the three daughters as light-skinned, and Akhenaten and Nefertiti as tanned, thus “bookending” the scene. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Daughter<\/a>
Daughter in Plain Light Silk<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

So I blended a lighter colour and got started on Daughter Number 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only to decide I really didn’t like it, order some more flat silk, and try again. This is the lighter shade of Akhenaten’s skin colour, and as you can see, it is too light. It barely shows against the gold, and at that, the photo shows it better than it showed in real life – I had real trouble seeing it to stitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So that wouldn’t do, would it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Daughter<\/a>
Daughter Unpicked Again<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The next thing I tried was a blend of the light and dark skintones, and as you can see, there isn’t even a photo of that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sigh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unpicked again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The videos are of course somewhat beyond this point – Episode 16<\/a> – “On the satisfaction of pattern building and the avoidance of confusion” is now available. Do have a look!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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