Pear Duet

Pear Duet is finally finished and off to the framer!! This finishes up new designs for 2013.  I am taking a week or two off from stitching and then I will begin work on 2014 designs.  I have rough sketches, thread samples, beads, and lots of tabbed pages at the ready.  It is always fun to see what actually emerges.  

But now it is time to collect everything that needs to travel with me to the ANG 40th anniversary seminar in Philadelphia.  I hope to see each of you there.  Have fun!

PEAR DUET

I have been working on the drawing for Pear Duet for awhile.  I did several sketches and tried out different combinations of water-soluble pencils to paint the design.  There are about 5 or 6 layers of water-soluble colored pencil used for each area, then just a little water is needed to dissolve the pigment.  I just finished the pears and copied the design to Transfer Artist Paper (by Leslie Riley) which I will then irone on to 18-count canvas in the same manner as Leaf Collage.    

To create the background framework I will use a "string" pattern such as that used to a framework for a Zentangle (see my other blog:  http://terrystangles.blogspot.com.  

Tomorrow and Monday I plan to pull a palette of threads to "audition" from my stash.  I will post again when I have most of the first pear stitched to show what I have in mind.