Before the extraordinary sudden growth in the hedges since the warm weather finally arrived this week, I went out with my camera to photograph the neatly cropped hedges all around where we live. The farmers seem to have been especially active this winter and have created a very particular, controlled look to their field boundaries.
Yet I am fascinated by the variety of pattern that still manages to exist within these hedgerows - all little more than waist height. Some have negative spaces at their base and dense top-knots of closely interwoven branches that form a small canopy at the top. Others offer a haphazard mat of trunks that cross over one another at random. They all seem to be asking me to stitch them - and this time, to use some colour, albeit muted and rather wintery.
In Photoshop Elements, I turned two of the more interesting photos to black and white and then colourised them to give a mahogany brown that I hope will offer interesting possibilities of colour contrasts in the stitching.
These two resulted for now and will do for experiments while I am away in Scotland next week.
Seeing them on the screen makes me realise that the mahogany brown will need some enhancement, especially on the top version!
Yet I am fascinated by the variety of pattern that still manages to exist within these hedgerows - all little more than waist height. Some have negative spaces at their base and dense top-knots of closely interwoven branches that form a small canopy at the top. Others offer a haphazard mat of trunks that cross over one another at random. They all seem to be asking me to stitch them - and this time, to use some colour, albeit muted and rather wintery.
In Photoshop Elements, I turned two of the more interesting photos to black and white and then colourised them to give a mahogany brown that I hope will offer interesting possibilities of colour contrasts in the stitching.
These two resulted for now and will do for experiments while I am away in Scotland next week.
Seeing them on the screen makes me realise that the mahogany brown will need some enhancement, especially on the top version!
I really love these photos, so typical of our area. Have a great holiday.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for your comment and your good wishes, Louise. Off to a very different landscape, and no doubt lots of photos! I will post any that look promising.
DeleteLove how you have captured these patterns in the hedges - so beautiful! and thanks to you too for continuing to blog and share :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Kim.
DeleteI always enjoy your blog, though I don’t always comment. Communicating over so many miles is something of a miracle, isn’t it? It continues to bring me so much interest and Is a source of great pleasure.
de retour à la maison,je découvre ces arbres magnifiques! biz
ReplyDeleteMerçi Elfi. Chez moi, en ce moment c'est toujour les arbres - ou les batiments!
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