Thursday, April 16, 2009

sketchbook translations

Sketchbook collage 2008 by jafabrit

Translations
I thought it might be fun to see if I could do an embroidery version of the above sketchbook page. I did do something along those lines a while back.

I never really did anything with it. At the time I thought I was going to use it for a quilt and didn't see it as an individual piece, so I'm going to have to revisit that. I did a mixture of paint and embroidery (stitched lips onto it), beaded circle on gessoed black muslin. Not easy to stitch on, but the effect is reminiscent of my painting style.
Here is the original sketch