Embroidery Hand Stitching

So what do you do when you're trying to sort things out?

I doodle, play with words, write out my woes!!

I was fed up trying to sort things out so I decided to set my mind on a creative task instead....to fill up a sketch book.

I wanted to use yellow as it so prominent in my life now...and has been for over a year.

Needless to say it's obvious connotations are Cancer and yes it pertains to that.

So I'm describing my thoughts and feelings in the images I create on each page.

Each page has a yellow acrylic wash. The lettering above is in liner pen.

Torn strips of fashion and lifestyle magazines in hues & tones of yellow. Glued onto the page horizontally.

The background is wax crayon in yellow & orange. Masking tape is then attached in pattern as a resist to the top coat of white wax crayon. The masking tape is taken off revealing the hidden colour and pattern.

Photocopy of the torn strip lifestyle magazines cut up and glued with space in between for the liner pen doodle to grow in, incomplete.

crumpled craft papers and torn magazine papers glued to page. depicting the path and describing the uncertainty and danger under foot.

Photocopy of torn magazine page. Is it flames or a flower that fell.

This is similar to the last painting my sister did, Hers was extremely neat circles of yellow. The oil pastel used here was finger blended with red atop. a spiral pattern was scratch out.

Liner pen sketches of woodland walks. Trees, path and ferns. threads are glued in place of leaves, ferns and the path.

Some thoughts.

Cartridge paper crumpled until it's texture and fibres are nearer to fabric, as are the craft, magazine and tissue paper sections. joined together with various threads of varying thickness in straight stitch. taken from sketches of woodland walk. the stitches describe the densities in foliage and trees.

above in detail. the embroidery is then glued to the page and covered in pva glue.

detail of tree and path sketch, the yellow wings between glued threads just appeared, so I coloured them in. I think it had been fern leaves.

thanks for taking time to look and read.

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