Thread painting on khadi paper

Not in the conventional sense, of densely stitched threads covering the whole surface of a cloth, done either by hand or by machine, but touches of thread, over watercolour paintings.

Stitched and wrapped, with two different weights and colours of variegated thread.

Wrapping vertically only with one weight of variegated thread

Wrapping horizontally with one weight of thread, coloured by drawing through the watercolour paints

Horizontal and vertical wrapping with one weight of thread coloured by drawing through the watercolour paints.

Lots to explore further here.

Colours of Pembrokeshire

Azure seas

Yarns for weaving at Melin Tregwynt

Have inspired some artistic activities with paint and thread.

Busy table - no paintbrush, so I had to improvise with found feathers and sheep’s wool.

“Thread painting” “ khadi paper, watercolour paint, variegated thread

Finding joy in colour - need to find it somewhere

Autumn leaves in my sketchbook

This term, I am doing a course on colour with Abigail Downer at the Mary Ward Centre. I really enjoy Abigail's teaching and she is encouraging us to explore this extended autumn in our colour palettes. I’ve combined my love of colour, collage, precision  cutting and leaves in these pages.

and one for fun

November challenge, bacteria blooming

Two challenge pieces to complete by the end of the year, and I’m rushing to get these completed.  November is a single bacterial colony on a microscope slide. A chance to use some toggles made a long time go with Karen Ruane. I must have had my camera on some very odd setting as these colours are all too blue.

Finishes, stitched and drawn on different scales

Part 3 of the seed series is finished, bound ( sort of, completed with a satin stitch, stitched with an overlock foot which prevents the stitching puckering and tightening) and a photo posted to the group page of the Contemporary Quilt Group. Lots and lots of texture on this one.

A last session with the curved structure at the drawing course led to more collaged music,some additional ink and white chalk.

Next week, we are drawing reflections which I love, but which I don’t love drawing!

 

 

Where has all the stitching gone, long time passing

With apologies to Peter, Paul and Mary, time to ponder where my stitching has got to.  I’m being diverted in to sketchbook work, which is a good thing, in light of the degree of mental block I have about thinking my scribblings are worthy of the word sketchbook.

Work in the studio at Mary Ward, continuing with this piece, cutting a stencil to allow multiples to be drawn on top of each other

Then as ever, I felt the need for some collage

One more week to work on this in the studio.

I am still working on the CQGB monthly challenge. with the last one of the seed series well underway. Applique, embroidery and texturing with TextureMagic

Shadowing with oilsticks has been overdone, I’ll need to see if I can tone that down.

The final three in the series are based on bacteria, and the threats posed by overuse of antibiotics.

I’ve filled a sketchbook,, so needed a new one. Breakdown-printed cloth with an appliquéd piece of melted ( deliberately of course!) gold lame fabric. 

Filling up

 

Experiments with drawing ink and an angle-cut hair dyeing brush on pasted tissue paper - swans, gondolas?

Inspiration this month has come from: Ruth Padel and  Issam Kourbaj, “Dark Water, Burning  World” a small installation in the Islamic Gallery at the British Museum; The Business of Prints at the British Museum; Prism at Hoxton Galleries, now finished, particularly the work of Ross Belton using found natural materials.

Finishing on using found natural materials, a note on Margaret Cooter’s blog, inspired me to search out this beautiful method of making decorative roses from autumn leaves.