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Painting with a Needle
Saturday, August 29, 2009
The Needle has a spirit.
Apart from its outward traces.
Not fingers nor silk filament,
But by graceful power, a painting is done.
- Ni Renji (china 1607-1685)
Stitched by Lynn Googe
Stitched by Steven Bienstock
Stitched by Claudia Moniquez
Artistic Flowers 17th Century China
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The rise of an affluent merchant class alongside the
Qing Dynasty imperial Courts 
stimulated demand for fine crafts
such as textiles and ceramics, as well as the fine arts. 
One of the six masters of the the Early Qing was Yun Shouping. He continued the tradition of landscape painting but also resurrected an earlier genre of flower painting as seen in these two lovely Lotus Flowers.
Stitching People
Sunday, August 16, 2009
A good number of our canvases have faces.
If you wish to create realistic skin use the basketweave stitch and blend colors.
Our
first choice of fiber is almost always silk, but a fine wool is good. 
Eyes can be tricky, and we have found the outline stitch worked in a
circular shape to be quite effective.
Shading of skin can also be tricky. Don't be afraid to blend colors
together. Silk or cotton lend themselves well to blending.
So many of our canvases call for your interpretation, especially the
Impressionists and other Old Masters. Deciding on the thread type,
thread colors and types of stitches for different areas of the canvas
are all part of the interpretative process.
We suggest you sit with the unfinished canvas for awhile, in natural
light, before you pick up a thread.
Then after you decide what thread type, or if you bought a kit from us,
take a piece of each thread color and knot it to the right hand edge of
the canvas. You can do this randomly or group the color hues together.
Doing this helps to train your eye to color.
Enrich your Life with COLOR!
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
FEELING BLUE?
SEEING RED?
GREEN WITH ENVY?
Color has an emotional effect on us independent of its subject matter.
Wassily Kandinksy, credited as the first to paint abstracts, thought artists should use form and color to express emotion and arouse feelings in the viewer.
Similarly, from a more contemporary artist, Leslie Trewyn uses color and form to evoke a personal response:
Painting with a Needle
Saturday, August 29, 2009
The Needle has a spirit.
Apart from its outward traces.
Not fingers nor silk filament,
But by graceful power, a painting is done.
- Ni Renji (china 1607-1685)
Stitched by Lynn Googe
Stitched by Steven Bienstock
Stitched by Claudia Moniquez
Apart from its outward traces.
Not fingers nor silk filament,
But by graceful power, a painting is done.
- Ni Renji (china 1607-1685)
Stitched by Lynn Googe
Stitched by Steven Bienstock
Stitched by Claudia Moniquez
Artistic Flowers 17th Century China
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The rise of an affluent merchant class alongside the
Qing Dynasty imperial Courtsstimulated demand for fine crafts
such as textiles and ceramics, as well as the fine arts.
One of the six masters of the the Early Qing was Yun Shouping. He continued the tradition of landscape painting but also resurrected an earlier genre of flower painting as seen in these two lovely Lotus Flowers.
Qing Dynasty imperial Courts
stimulated demand for fine craftssuch as textiles and ceramics, as well as the fine arts.
One of the six masters of the the Early Qing was Yun Shouping. He continued the tradition of landscape painting but also resurrected an earlier genre of flower painting as seen in these two lovely Lotus Flowers.
Stitching People
Sunday, August 16, 2009
A good number of our canvases have faces.
If you wish to create realistic skin use the basketweave stitch and blend colors.Our first choice of fiber is almost always silk, but a fine wool is good.
Eyes can be tricky, and we have found the outline stitch worked in a
circular shape to be quite effective.Shading of skin can also be tricky. Don't be afraid to blend colors together. Silk or cotton lend themselves well to blending.
So many of our canvases call for your interpretation, especially the Impressionists and other Old Masters. Deciding on the thread type, thread colors and types of stitches for different areas of the canvas are all part of the interpretative process.
We suggest you sit with the unfinished canvas for awhile, in natural light, before you pick up a thread.
Then after you decide what thread type, or if you bought a kit from us, take a piece of each thread color and knot it to the right hand edge of the canvas. You can do this randomly or group the color hues together. Doing this helps to train your eye to color.
Enrich your Life with COLOR!
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
FEELING BLUE?
SEEING RED?
GREEN WITH ENVY?
SEEING RED?
GREEN WITH ENVY?
Color has an emotional effect on us independent of its subject matter.
Wassily Kandinksy, credited as the first to paint abstracts, thought artists should use form and color to express emotion and arouse feelings in the viewer.
Similarly, from a more contemporary artist, Leslie Trewyn uses color and form to evoke a personal response:
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