I couldn't find a drawing in my sketchbook that i felt met the requirements and that i felt i could comfortably express to a good standard through stitching and so decided to use an image i had found elsewhere.
This drawing is by an artist called Brandon Boyd. He uses a lot of lines within all his work, and so automatically thought of him for this project. I decided to focus on the hair of the woman in the painting for this project.
To create my marks based on this painting, i first chose my fabric, i chose a plain white fabirc for this, as i wanted to focus mainly on the line i was creating.
I chose a selection of blue/green and black/grey materials and threads. Simlilar to that in the painting, but also because i felt i had more choice to work with in this colour from the collection of fabrics/ threads that i have.
I used a mixture of satin stitches and running stitches to create this piece. There are a lot of twists, curves and wavy lines within the picture, all of which seem to just flow, lightly. I tried to recreate this using a satin stitch in different colours. I twisted ribbon and stitched this on, and added some straight stitches to the top left in a swirly pattern. I wanted to create marks that reminded me of water. i cut a piece of green fabric in quite a wavy fashion and added this to the bottom, i chose this fabric not only because it fitted with the colour scheme, but also because it also already features lines on it.
There are a lot of heavy black lines on the painting and its quite busy and so i added some black stitching to my work and with a thin thread, as not to ruin and draw attention away from my main marks, i stitched a twisted design across my fabric with quite linear features, i then added some more black thread across the material this time a thicker thread to make my design look busier and more linear.
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