This lovely painting by Suzanne Tornquist has been transferred to needlepoint canvas and is for sale on eBay this week. Here's the auction--
She's a beauty but before you buy, read the details and study the photo carefully.
This is sold as a 14 count canvas but you can get larger count, which to me says that this is probably going to be a silk screened or transferred design onto NP canvas.
If you are thinking about picking up a piece on eBay --which is home to a ton of transfer designs--you need to think about several things. The first is how much trouble a silk screened or heat transfer canvas is going to give you. If not knowing exactly what color is on a particular canvas intersection drives you nuts, avoid silk screened canvases like the plague!
Do you like working on 14 count or do you want to try it? If you really need 10-12 count, it looks like you can have this size made for you, which would be a reason to bid.
The auction doesn't say if the 14 count canvas is interlock or Zweigart or another type of NP canvas. You may want to find out before you bid if this is important to you.
The auction does say that this design is an "exclusive copyrighted image" which makes me think the artist licensed this to be turned into a NP canvas. Many silk screened or transferred image canvases don't have permission and very often these turn up on eBay. I've seen rip-offs (or counterfeit) Melissa Shirley designs on eBay and I'm sure that some of the people selling these things ignore copyright. I wouldn't buy anything I thought stolen myself.
How well will the design tranfer to the grid of a needlepoint canvas? Look at her mouth and eyes. Will the curves there translate well to NP?
Only you can answer these questions for yourself, but think about them before buying a silk screened canvas. I'm not saying don't buy something as gorgeous as this. I'm just saying think before bidding.
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2 comments:
This is very pretty and looks like a "Jane" piece.....dashing off giggling
I'll get you for this, Pat!
Jane, runs after Pat, throwing skeins of thread
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