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Papercuts and Bruises
Oct. 29th, 2019 11:35 pmI have been a busy bee.
Did you know you can embroider on duck canvas? It's not perfectly square like the evenweave canvas they sell for embroidery, but canvas is canvas. I have done a few little cross stitch pieces here and there, mooching off pixel and perler bead designs because cross stitch leans very heavily towards flowers and angels, you know.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B37lFkjHIK7/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
I'm noodling around with various designs, but my embroidery thread box has scampered off to greener pastures, and I am just scavenging threads from a kit I found, so my palette is distinctly limited.
I've also been doing a bit of papercutting.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4AuZ3bHj87/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
This is one of my favorite illustrations by Sidney Paget - the scene in The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle where Holmes and Watson try to pull clues from Henry Baker's lost hat. It's a very awkward shape to frame, though. I don't have what anyone would consider good paper crafting supplies - no fancy paper or nice punches, no mod podge or scrapbooking stuff. So I faked up a background with watercolors, and cut the border out of black paper with an x-acto knife. Everything is stuck in place with loops of masking tape. Turned out pretty good!
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4LtoTYnXQD/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
This is a honeybee and some calendula flowers for my mom. I looked at some illustrations, sketched it out, and just started cutting. I'm actually really enjoying papercutting - it's like appliqué without the fuss of sewing, and I haven't even drawn blood yet.
I whalloped my wrist on a metal chair, so that's it for art for a few days. It doesn't even look bruised, but I got it right on the bone and it hurts to bend it, so I've had my wrist in and out of a little neoprene wrap for support, and have been putting liniment on it. Had to be the dominant hand, too.
Besides that, I've been having a pretty good time. Bought a couple of good puzzles from the library, and have been making progress through my dime cart novels. I have read some Japanese fairy tales I've never read before, a novel about a deaf kid befriending a backyard fae child, a slightly awful but beautifully illustrated book of original fairytales from the forties, the biography of a WWII POW, and a Brother Cadfael mystery. I still have about thirty dime cart books left to go through, most of them nonfiction - a couple of dog psychology books, a bit of Victorian history, a Rita Hayworth biography, and more. The nonfiction is mostly mysteries, Irish mythology, and a book Mark Twain wrote a scathing review of. I'm slowly chewing my way through the pile, and I would really like to get it down to just the one section of my shelf. That's about nine books away, assuming I don't get anywhere near the dime cart in the meantime.
Did you know you can embroider on duck canvas? It's not perfectly square like the evenweave canvas they sell for embroidery, but canvas is canvas. I have done a few little cross stitch pieces here and there, mooching off pixel and perler bead designs because cross stitch leans very heavily towards flowers and angels, you know.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B37lFkjHIK7/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
I'm noodling around with various designs, but my embroidery thread box has scampered off to greener pastures, and I am just scavenging threads from a kit I found, so my palette is distinctly limited.
I've also been doing a bit of papercutting.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4AuZ3bHj87/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
This is one of my favorite illustrations by Sidney Paget - the scene in The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle where Holmes and Watson try to pull clues from Henry Baker's lost hat. It's a very awkward shape to frame, though. I don't have what anyone would consider good paper crafting supplies - no fancy paper or nice punches, no mod podge or scrapbooking stuff. So I faked up a background with watercolors, and cut the border out of black paper with an x-acto knife. Everything is stuck in place with loops of masking tape. Turned out pretty good!
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4LtoTYnXQD/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
This is a honeybee and some calendula flowers for my mom. I looked at some illustrations, sketched it out, and just started cutting. I'm actually really enjoying papercutting - it's like appliqué without the fuss of sewing, and I haven't even drawn blood yet.
I whalloped my wrist on a metal chair, so that's it for art for a few days. It doesn't even look bruised, but I got it right on the bone and it hurts to bend it, so I've had my wrist in and out of a little neoprene wrap for support, and have been putting liniment on it. Had to be the dominant hand, too.
Besides that, I've been having a pretty good time. Bought a couple of good puzzles from the library, and have been making progress through my dime cart novels. I have read some Japanese fairy tales I've never read before, a novel about a deaf kid befriending a backyard fae child, a slightly awful but beautifully illustrated book of original fairytales from the forties, the biography of a WWII POW, and a Brother Cadfael mystery. I still have about thirty dime cart books left to go through, most of them nonfiction - a couple of dog psychology books, a bit of Victorian history, a Rita Hayworth biography, and more. The nonfiction is mostly mysteries, Irish mythology, and a book Mark Twain wrote a scathing review of. I'm slowly chewing my way through the pile, and I would really like to get it down to just the one section of my shelf. That's about nine books away, assuming I don't get anywhere near the dime cart in the meantime.
