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| Leigh Designs' Dragon |
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| Leigh Designs' O'jishi |
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| Finishing by Marlene's |
By the way, I love that you have ideas already for this piece and that they are different than mine. My job is to get you thinking about the design and to come up with your own ideas about what you think will look good. It's a virtual collaboration but you are in the driver's seat. I'm just the tour guide up front with the megaphone shouting "Over there you see a pillow with a stitched faux bamboo border. Over here we have a pillow with a stitched metallic frame in black and gold." Which you like best, if any, is up to you.
Before you commit to a light cream color for the background, make sure that the colors of the dragon will stand out against it. I can't tell the colors of the dragon from the photos well enough to advise you. You will need to have at least a medium-colored dragon on the light cream background or the dragon will look washed out. I've used light spring green and light lavender together and had them disappear into each other when stitched, so this is important. My light green and pale lavender looked very different in the skein than they did stitched. What looks ok in the skein may not work when actually stitched, so if you have some light cream thread (doesn't matter if it is Silk and Ivory or not since you are just trying to get an idea of how well the colors play together), try stitching a little sample in basketweave using the cream and also using your main dragon color to see if the colors are distinct enough from each other. You'll have to step back from the stitched sample to know for sure. A pale cream with medium golds and browns should be ok, but you want to be certain before you commit to a background color since you are going to buy the threads.
Generally speaking, don't stitch a dark color next to another dark color or a light next to a light or you will get the disappearing effect. Even two medium colors together can be a problem, depending on the colors. You can get away with a lot if they are complimentary colors, though. Here's a bit about which colors are complimentary if you aren't familiar with the concept.
http://painting.about.com/od/artglossaryc/g/defcompcolours.htm
We can go ahead and think about background stitches once you let me know whether you plan to do the background for sure in Silk and Ivory and if you want a stitched border. Those two choices will help narrow down backgrounds. One other thing, how big is the dragon's eye and how big is the tiny hole that the tail forms? You can tell me inches or NP canvas threads, whichever makes sense. I'll tell you why I want to know next message.
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Generally speaking, don't stitch a dark color next to another dark color or a light next to a light or you will get the disappearing effect. Even two medium colors together can be a problem, depending on the colors. You can get away with a lot if they are complimentary colors, though."
Yes, I know what complementary colours are.
But if you cared to expand on the comment above, I'd be very interested, for one. Tho I don't know if you can get past generalities?!?
e-Rose, the easiest way to explain what I said is for you to do some test stitching with pairs of light, medium and dark colors. Try basketweaving a square in one light color except for a line of dots down the middle (or scattered at random) in another light color. Then see how easy it is to find the dots. Repeat with medium shades and dark shades, then try pairing a light color with a dark, etc.
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