seashell shore
Posted: Monday, 18 February 2008 |
as I said in the previous post the convex piece of tyvek gave me an idea for my jan JQ, the other contributor to my idea is an embroidery I did over 23 years ago when I was studying City and Guilds Creative studies Embroidery, the tutor gave us all a paper cut out shell shape with just a few detail lines, we could interpret it any way we liked free embroidery by hand (not canvaswork, blackwork, etc.) the only other rule was we had to keep the exact size, in other words what she gave us was a shell pattern,
when I got home and sorted through my fabrics (in those days my inspiration always started with my fabrics), I had some pink and white tie dyed satin that looked shell like to me and at the time I was very into scrim, hessian and nets, so I layered a background of hessian overlaid with nets, I wanted my shell to standout so I did an applied trapunto (stuffed it ~ put some wadding behind it so it was raised), when I had tie dyed the fabric I had thrown in some threads too, always useful, I outlined the shell and picked out the detail lines with the thread, then I embroidered and beaded over some lace for sea foam around the shell and finished with some embroidery and beading over the sea and sand, I didn鈥檛 cover the surfaces with stitch as I liked to just create slight effects and ideas yet leave the sense of the fabric, (if you can understand),
so now I had my inspirations,
when I got home and sorted through my fabrics (in those days my inspiration always started with my fabrics), I had some pink and white tie dyed satin that looked shell like to me and at the time I was very into scrim, hessian and nets, so I layered a background of hessian overlaid with nets, I wanted my shell to standout so I did an applied trapunto (stuffed it ~ put some wadding behind it so it was raised), when I had tie dyed the fabric I had thrown in some threads too, always useful, I outlined the shell and picked out the detail lines with the thread, then I embroidered and beaded over some lace for sea foam around the shell and finished with some embroidery and beading over the sea and sand, I didn鈥檛 cover the surfaces with stitch as I liked to just create slight effects and ideas yet leave the sense of the fabric, (if you can understand),
so now I had my inspirations,
Comments
Frances, if you want more tyvek just let me know. The Post Office in the US uses it for all their envelopes and they are easy for me to get a bunch and just send them off to you. They are light too! Jordi
Jordi from us
A lovely piece of work IT. How would you approach the same subject 23 years later?
Flying Cat from understanding purrfectly
That shell is simply beautiful, so delicate and pretty. Absolutely stunning. You are so very talented !!
Squidgy the Otter from In the Pink on Coll
This, friends of IB, is The ultimate elusive grottie BUCKIE!!!!! No its not, fooled you, it's a more-beautiful-in-art- than-life carnivorous whelk. IT, your art is amazing, but in this case a bit too kitch for my taste.
Barney from Swithiod Tyveka!
Jordi thanks very much for the offer, the ones I had are very light thinner than copy paper, FC the next post is in away the 21st cen. version but the tyvek lent it self to pebbles rather than a shell, thank you all for nice comments,
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