Artist's postcard - but I'm not the artist!

For a while I've been trying to think of a theme that I could use occasionally to work on small pieces which I could carry with me. Then I looked at Barbara's post and an idea was born - to take a small detail from a painting and re-create it in stitch. This interests/challenges me on two levels. The first means looking in detail at a painting, noting how the paint is applied and then comparing this over a range of pieces by the same artist. The second challenge is the usual one of interpreting the work in stitch - at least I can make this easier for myself by careful selection!

So here is the first, an easy choice - easy to recognise the artist and easy to interpret in stitch. At some point I've have changed the orientation but this wasn't a conscious decision!

Painted vilene, overlaid with sheers.

There's a surprise..

....to find that there are some folks still hooked up to my poor neglected blog. Thanks for the comments.

The picture below is a poor representation of a postard that comes as a result of the Contempory Quilt Summer School weekend with Angie Hughes. Angie is a textile artist and a very enabling tutor. The postcard wasn't the focus of the weekend but using text as a source and the use of print blocks was. I had a wonderful time and have several pieces on the go but had that urge to complete something NOW, not when the day job permits. Hence the postcard, which will go to the Guild Postcard fundraiser for St. Anthony's.

Never .....

... print the text for a new piece after two large glasses of wine:











I didn't see it at first, but now all I can see is the mistake. The only answer at the moment seems to be glass number three!