{"id":14127,"date":"2022-09-13T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14127"},"modified":"2022-09-12T17:29:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:29:52","slug":"mystery-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2022\/09\/13\/mystery-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Remember this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I found it on the blocking board and decided that it would be Finished And Done this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the reasons I didn’t persevere with it the last time I found it was that I was rather daunted by redrawing the bits of the transfer which had worn away while it was hidden – or maybe not transferred properly in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In particular, the bottom row was a procession of Horse Guards, and horses are rather tricky to draw. I was interested to find that the past few years of working on my painting and drawing had made me much more calm in the face of that particular challenge. I don’t say my horses are particularly good, but they don’t look like elephants, and I count that a win!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also decided that, since there was no way I could reconstruct the way the design was intended to be done, I would do something different, so all my additions are line stitched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apart from the border, which as you see I have blanket stitched to create the effect of one of those striped borders some banners have. Another alteration was to make the faces of the troupers a variety of different shades. A few years ago I might have picked one shade and used it for all of them, more concerned with pattern than verisimilitude, but our Armed Forces have never been restricted to white Britons, and now I am more concerned not to obliterate that service in the name of Design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it was finished before the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. If, as I half-suspect, it was a magazine design for the Coronation, I managed to finish it within the 70 years of her reign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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