Mixed Media Machine Embroidered Tree

Pat has also finished and had framed one of her Mixed Media

machine Embroidered Trees.

Isn't it wonderful?

Pat has transferred her skills as a painter beautifully

into mixed media textiles.

See more of her textiles by clicking the written labels below.

Gallery Day 21st June 2011

Pat is making this mixed media textile wallhanging,

on the right and has been doing other projects in between.

Often new techniques and how to progress takes a little

time and then the next stage evolves and comes to light.

The trees are now applied and the backing and

finishing stitches are nearly there.

It is a beautiful one of a kind and

I haven't seen anything like it before.

It is amazing.

Well done Pat!

The piece above is a confetti textile,

stitches and embellishments

underneath a light gauze and then more

mixed media on top.

I love to see these layering textiles.

See more mixed media textiles on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Embroided Mixed Media Tree

Pat has been away for a few weeks but look what she

has been making and it is ready for framing.

It is a single mixed media tree.

She is still working on the layering of her

wall hanging which contains

four similar trees to the one above.

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Mixed Media Trees

Pat is adding the texture to the background fabric, so her trees

become 'grounded',

(see earlier posts by clicking label below, textile trees).

She is sewing on threads and snippets in a circular motion

so there is movement in the piece.

The trees have just been pinned on at this point.

To see where to go next and how much depth

Pat needed to add, I got her to masking tape

the wall hanging to the wall and

then stand at the other end of the room.

Pat, could see, it needed deeper colour stitching, more

circles and where they needed to go.

As you walk nearer the piece you can pick up the details

and richness already there.

Pat worked on it all morning, many more hours to add

but this piece is becoming an outstanding one!

Well done Pat!

I will grab it for it's finish photo soon!!!

See more of what happens @ The Gallery

www.thegallerydereham.co.uk

Design to Art Quilt

As you can see Pat has finished making her mixed media textile

trees and they are now ready for the background.

The background is calico dyed and painted in several layers

to build up colour

in certain areas, and to signify borders.

The centre of the wallhanging is all threads and strands of fabric,

machine stitched and embellished onto felt.

Pat is going to take these out in a circle to the border.

This is a piece which needed the design process to

bring ideas together and to choose the different

ways the piece could go.

The design element of any artwork can happen at the

beginning and often at many different stages of development.

Standing back and often walking away leaving the piece

on show allows you to discover more about the artwork or

develop a different technique approach.

Sampling on a mock up really helps.

Not all art making is clear cut and can teach all

of us many different things along the way

by trying different techniques before settling on the next step,

Experimenting is one of the beauties of ART.

Gallery Day 1st of March 2011

Lots of Mixed Media going on at the Tuesday morning session

@ The Gallery Dereham.

These are three of Pat's mixed textile trees above.

She has one more to do and then it is working on

the background fabric to give it the same depth of colour and richness

but still leaving the variation, so the trees shine.

'Grounding' them, as a fellow textile artist called Judy.

(She explains this so well).

Visit her blog at

http://judysfiberart.blogspot.com

See more of what goes on at the gallery and more

throughout this site.