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Sunday, 30 November 2014

Stitching bridges

In the last week or so, I've been trying out stitching on a bridge shadows photo I took in the US in September. This time my aim was to accentuate and develop the graphic qualities of the image - black and white contrast, shape and simplicity - rather than to interrupt it and mask it a little as I've tried before.

Small sections are shown here.



I'm planning to do something larger - perhaps a composite piece - once I've tried out a few more ideas. Maybe it will contain both approaches or something different again. Time will tell ...


8 comments:

  1. Great stitching. Love what you're doing here.

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    1. Good to hear from you and thanks for your comment. I'm having fun and playing with images. Not sure where it will lead.

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  2. I sure love the look of this Margaret ! ... gorgeous !

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    1. Thank you, Sharron. Not sure that there will be much more of this for a while ... I feel Christmas card making coming on!

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  3. This is looking wonderful. Love the bold black stitched lines. Hand stitching adds something very special to a piece doesn't it? (Hope your Christmas card-making session is nearly done so you can get back to stitching!!!!)

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  4. I'm experimenting for a bigger piece and will try other things once those Christmas cards are finished!

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  5. Sorry to be coming to the conversation so late, but I am catching up on blog-browsing a bit and just had to add my admiration to that of the others! The "interrupting" was interesting, but this is an equally interesting way of building upon the original geometry - beautiful!

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    1. There is more to come with this idea - 'building upon the original geometry' as you so delightfully put it ... I just need some 'me' space to do some thinking ... hard to find recently.

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