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Tangled Thread - Tips, Trick and Tutorials in Sewing & Stitching

part five: how to go from photo to finished art

by Chloe on February 27th, 2008

We’ve chosen a subject and taken photos.

We’ve used photo editing software to simplify the image.

We’ve sketched (and sketched, and sketched and sketched) and then painted.

We’ve used photo editing software again to help us decide on where to embroider.

And then we finally got to embroider :-)

But I wasn’t quite satisfied, so here’s my final solution:

how to go from photo to finished fiber art?

There was so much green on the piece that it needed to be balanced out.  And since red is the complementary color for green - I just needed to add a touch of it.  The colors are nicely harmonized now and seem to almost sparkle.

I’m going to display this piece by sewing it onto a stretched canvas (the kind you would paint on)  I like to frame smaller art works this way (and have for years now) - it seems to give them more of a “presence”.

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