While thinking about the garden I sketched out some ideas for my next stitching project.
I used my water colour pencils which are ideal for this kind of sketching.
Although the pastel pencils are great too I just prefer to work with these.
Once I am happy with the basic sketch I brush a little water over the surface to blend the colours and soften the effect.
Once it is damp I can add some more colour where I feel it is needed.
The next step is to decide on materials and embellishments. This is the fun part. I am thinking of using felt with wool and silk tops.
Felt is easy to work with and the wool and silk can give texture and depth of colour.
2 comments:
Sweet sketches, sketch me a chair and I will come and sit. xox
Your sketch is lovely Dian, and you are quite right saying the dampness gives the pencil colour depth!! I like 'your garden' and can see you fashioning it with all sorts of lovely bits and pieces. Sadly, Spring up here can be a bit non-existent, so I soak up the Autumn for as long as I can. We get lovely growth on trees at this time of the year. Happy stitching when you start your Spring Garden.
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