Its always a pleasure to create another project for my Aurifil Artisan group. This month is an easy brief, a seasonal project. It seemed obvious to me it had to a snow scene! I have been experimenting with contre jour and finding ways in paint and stitch of creating that illusion of light breaking through the landscape.
1. My drawing on silk using a textile pencil for guidelines and gutta for the frame.
2. The sketchy painting to give some background colour and structure to the composition.
3. Choosing my range of threads.
4. The first few stitches for distant foliage.
I have worked with a series of straight stitches so far, drawing what I see in the background of the photograph. I then move forward to the foreground and start incorporating some zigzag stitch to give bolder, smoother marks for the snow and give perspective to the work.
2. I have added some tree tunks.
3. Moving to the middle distance and working some snow on the ground and a few more tree trunks.
4. Finally to the foreground with zigzag for the snow speckled textured trunk.
This embroidery has the classic limited pallette, I only used 9 colours of 50 weight Aurifil mako. They are beautiful shades and quality to work with. I love the way it looks like it snowing!