Sunday Snapshots

Working from a soft pastel sketch of Sutherland Beach...

lights and darks

in-betweens and reds

fat yarn stitches like thick paint brushes

I can't wait to tell you the story behind this one!  : )  You'll have to wait until the big finish.

Happy Sunday!

Some of My Favourite Colours

Look at all these yummy yarn colours!  They photograph so well on the black tablecloth.

I've been craving to do an entire piece with seed stitches, much like 'Where Sunlight Falls'.  This time I will just play around and experiment... see where it takes me.  I'm enjoying the layers and it's beginning (of course) to resemble a landscape.

I'm loving this process.  It's like dipping a brush into several paints and watching the colours all swirl as they are laid down on the canvas.  : )  It reminds me a bit of rug hooking: popping up colours and seeing what you get as you go along.

That's my work in progress.  I stitched all night and then again since 6 am.  I can hear my littlest one up, waiting for breakfast.  I should run!  See you soon,

Way Too Much Fun. Way.

Fun with yarn...  Possibly too much fun.  Am I ever feeling liberated by this!  I have eight new pieces of art all done with yarn and a needle for the show at Handmade House.  The more I make, the more I get excited about the next piece.  Not to say my threadpaintings don't excite me... but it's been four years and a couple hundred of them, so trying new methods of 'loosening up' and not working directly from source photos has been incredible.  It's working!  I had tried this a few years back but was not ready.  I had not studied enough landscapes like I can say I have now.  Now - it's like it is second nature.  It's just flowing.  Here's a mini redo inspired by of Where Sunlight Falls.

It's a little different than Where Sunlight Falls in that it doesn't have the extreme lights and darks.  I just played.  I enjoyed the colours and let them take me where they wanted to go.

My reaction - pure joy.  I love the movement and the life.  The colours just pop!  I really dig the texture.  Here is the finished piece close up.  I added bits of bronze into it.  It was a colour that ran through the yarns.  This seems to bring the whole thing to life and warms it up.  Makes it real.

In my excitement, this happened...

ready?

...

KAPOW!

It's kind of IN YOUR FACE - but oh well.  It most certainly expresses my excitement of this process.

: )

More to come, then off to the framing store.

yipee!

Linking to The Needle and Thread Network for WIP Wednesday