The combination of a #Screenprint with #HandEmbroidery is not one I'd ever used before. The turquoise linen fabric brings the gold and silk threads alive, and the subject allowed me to play with stitches.
This one is very much a pattern of colour and stitch. We don't, as far as I know, have any idea how the original headdress that Nefertiti wore was made, so I tried to create textures that distinguished those elements.
There's a suggestion of a smooth browband, so I used straight stitches in gold for that element. The profile means that most of the ornament at the front isn't visible. Hungarian Braided Chain stitch suggests something ornate, but imprecise.
In the second photo, you can see the decorative bands, rendered in gold Ladder Stitch with whipped bars in silk thread, tightly packed to create strong colour, reminiscent of gemstones. I'm particularly pleased with the corded effect here!
In the third photo, you can see my solution for the faience broad collar - radiating gold straight stitches, connected by a pattern of herringbone whipping in coloured silk.
3 more small artworks I’ve taken an age to share. These are by Charlotte Farmer, based in Bath, UK. These pics don’t pick up the vibrancy of the colours, as they contain lumos, absolutely beautiful work.
#bandshirtfriday
This is Dana wearing the new Fogdriver T-Shirt. But wait a minute - did you notice the similarity?
Yes, you´re right. She is indeed the "dancing shadow" in the fogdriver-video, on our CD-cover and the centre point of our new Shirt design!
Thank you so much, Dana, for being part of all this!!
Here's a print I made in 2020 called Sea Holly House. It is a three colour screenprint.
This was made when I was doing lots of "constructions" of objects, trying to make them look like art installations. I balanced stuff and tied stuff together in my prints. Didn't print a lot of these constructions though but I did sketch a lot.
This was my very first screenprint which I offered for sale. (I did do a gig poster before this but it was pretty much a printing disaster).
I made this 7 almost exactly years ago.
This is called Teasel and Hare. I used a technique I called "digital linocut" but it was not great. It is not my best work but shows a point in time where I was starting out. It was an edition of 22.
We will be bringing some of these wooden harbour scenes to Craft Festival Cheltenham at the weekend!
I am very proud of them even if they haven't sold that well. They pretty much went as I planned, the five screen printed colours all lined up nicely and the colours showed up against the plywood.
I'm slowly going through all my best prints! Soon I'll be onto the terrible ones.
Here's one of my favourite prints from a few years ago: "Between Tides". It is a five colour screenprint, two blues, yellow, brown and transparent black.
It is based on the harbour wall at Mousehole and features boats on the sand, lobster pots and a seagull. Unfortunately I only made 22 of them (I was still learning how to register prints accurately).
The last one travels with us to Cheltenham next Thursday to meet its new owner.
Here's another one of my recent prints, Mevagissey Harbour, a six colour screenprint which I started editioning earlier this year.
It is from a series of photographs I took of the harbour. I did not trace it from the photograph though but redrew it and interpreted it in my own way.
It features four colours and two transparent blacks. And lots of textures and natural media elements.