I noticed quite a few items online this month in various blogs that talk about how small changes can personalize and enhance your stitching. ABS Designs Online (that's Anne Stradal's blog) has a series of very interesting postings this month about her painted canvases and how she and others have changed little things to bring personality and style to the designs. First, Anne is showing off the hair on two of her angel designs. Take a look at the fancy hairstyles! Abigail has brunette bullions.
http://thecapestitcher.blogspot.com/2009/02/introducing-abigail.html
The Heart Angel is also a brunette, but she has a fancier style that is smooth on the front side and fancy on the back. Doesn't that give you ideas? It does me!
http://thecapestitcher.blogspot.com/2009/04/dressing-angel-hair.html
Anne also has showcased two versions of one of her small oval eggs. The egg is called "In the Garden" and Anne shows the unstitched canvas and two interpretations in this blog entry. Again, this is food for thought. There really is no "wrong" way to stitch painted canvases, is there?
http://thecapestitcher.blogspot.com/2009/04/interpreting-painted-canvas.html
I've found postings about color and how they change a design at Jan Fitzpatrick's wonderful blog and at the British Japanese Embroidery Center's blog. Jan has stitched a Laura Perin charted design with different colors, which turned the original into a totally new design.
http://threadmedley.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/choosing-colors-for-a-project/
Jane writes about color in Japanese Embroidery, how it is used, and what colors mean to Westerners and Japanese. She has posted pairs of designs in various colors to show how a change in color changes the traditional designs students all stitch. So besides tweaking a design to add your favorite hairstyle or a different motif, think about what changes in color you'd like to introduce. As Jane says, there is no right or wrong, just different interpretations.
http://japanese-embroidery.blogspot.com/2009/03/colour-in-japanese-embroidery.html
I'd like to add that changing small things in a design personalizes it and adds a bit of your own personality to a design. These changes allow us to interact with the original artist and collaborate with him or her in a unique piece of stitching.
Jane, wishing everyone lovely spring weather from Chilly Hollow
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2 comments:
Just to set the story straight, Jane, Abigail's bullions were done by Sue Dulle, who stitched one of the For the Cure angels. The Heart angel with the fancy hair in the back is mine.
Thanks, Anne. I knew that and thought I made it clear but communication is hard and besides, I wrote the final draft of this Before Coffee Monday morning!
Not the best time for clear communication!
By the way, thanks for visiting. It is very humbling to know that the designers whose work we admire and whose blogs are both interesting and fun come visiting here!
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