Playing with Sketches 3

 

Another exercise from this great book.  I can't remember the correct name for this, but it is the collage equivalent of reverse appliqué. Pages from a John Lewis catalogue and card.

Playing with Sketches

 

Another exercise in the 'Playing with Sketches' book suggests making rubbings from embroideries. Now I have quite a few embroideries around Cheese Acres - this one (top right) was inspired by the trunk of a beech tree and was actually in the waste bin when I started this exercise! 

 

Things. I learned:

1. Some embroideries work better as rubbings than as embroideries.
2. Contrary to all I've ever been told about making rubbings, thin paper is not necessarily the best. The blue here is a light card and it worked very well.
3. You can make rubbings direct onto fabric but you need to secure it well.

 

Since making these I've experimented with making embroideries specifically for rubbings, making rubbings on tracing paper, and using fabric crayons and fabric pastels for rubbings, using paper bag paper for fabric crayon rubbings, and embroidering into a heat transferred rubbing.

 

 

Playing with Sketches

I'm working my way through the exercises in this excellent book. Here is an example.

 

This exercise was exploring making marks with a variety of drawing tools. I didn't have any of those listed by brand name in the book, (many more than are shown here) but fortunately there were images of the tools in question, so I found the best substitutes I could.

 

The surprise for me was how much I enjoyed drawing with a dip pen - and how much drawing you can do between dips, although considering that we still used dip pens when I was in school, I should have known!