Thursday, January 29, 2015

Baker’s Dozen by Michele Roberts - Diamonds! Phodes Balloon Bargello


I finished second shape from the series Baker's Dozen by Michele Roberts. It is Rhodes Balloon Bargello - Diamonds!


The size of finished square is 4" x 4". I used 1,5 cards of Rainbow Gallery Neon Rays Needlepoint ribbon N15, 1 card of Rainbow Gallery Fyre Works metallic ribbon F5 and 3 different colors of 3 mm bicone aurora borealis crystals.


I am very excited to start working on another shape.

Natalia

Monday, January 26, 2015

Painting 2 - Sir Joshua Reynolds,


Sirr Joshua Reynolds, (born July 16, 1723, Plympton, Devon, England—died February 23, 1792, London), portrait painter and aesthetician who dominated English artistic life in the middle and late 18th century. Through his art and teaching, he attempted to lead British painting away from the indigenous anecdotal pictures of the early 18th century toward the formal rhetoric of the continental Grand Style. With the founding of the Royal Academy in 1768, Reynolds was elected its first president and knighted by King George III.


Reynolds was the leading English portraitist of the 18th century. Through study of ancient and Italian Renaissance art, and of the work of Rembrandt, Rubens and Van Dyck, he brought great variety and dignity to British portraiture.

His paintings are not perfectly preserved due to faulty technique. The carmine reds have faded, leaving flesh-tones paler than intended, and the bitumen used in the blacks has tended to crack.

Source: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/500800/Sir-Joshua-Reynolds
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/sir-joshua-reynolds

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Dollhouse Area Rug BALIKESIR - Petit Point Pattern


This week new design is a Dollhouse Miniature Petit Point pattern for an are rug BALIKESIR. This is a reproduction of an antique rug, 19th century., modified.


The rug displays a different stylization of the fight between the dragon and the phoenix. This is a symbolic representation of spring when the earth meets heaven and the God unite with mother goddess to produce fertile spring rains.

The pattern was recreated and modified from a survived piece of an actual rug, depicted on this image:


194 x 361 stitches, 8 colors

22 canvas - 8.82" x 16.41" (22,40 x 41,68 cm)

40 count silk gauze - 4.85" x 9.03" (12,32 x22,92 cm)

The pattern is charted for stitching with DMC. However, I would advise to stitch with Gloriana silk, or another over dyed silk of your choice to give a rug that antique worn look.

Saturday, January 24, 2015

Baker’s Dozen by Michele Roberts - Hilton Amadeus Clustered Hearts


I finished one of the Baker's Dozen by Michele Roberts - Hilton Amadeus Clustered Hearts. I made it square shape.


I added white pearl beads 4mm and 6 mm as the instructions call.


I have an idea how I am going to use it, but later about it.

I can't wait to start working on the next one.

Natalia

Monday, January 12, 2015

Baker’s Dozen by Michele Roberts - Hilton Amadeus Clustered Hearts


The ribbon hasn't arrived yet, but I added a little character to my piece - Japanese beads, size 15.


Hopefully, I receive all supplies I need in a short time and start fully enjoining stitching.

For now these square looks like this


Natalia

Saturday, January 10, 2015

Baker’s Dozen by Michele Roberts - Hilton Amadeus Clustered Hearts


I started Baker’s Dozen project with a design that is called Hilton Amadeus Clustered Hearts.


I used Rainbow Gallery Neon Rays ribbon NP120 for background and Trebizond silk goldish color for 8 Amadeus hearts.


I chose to stitch a 4" square instead of an oval shape. Loving texture a lot. This is probably the most important part that I was missing while doing petit point on silk gauze.


One card of ribbon was not enough for my square to fill up. So, while I am waiting for another to arrive, I decided to add some beads to the hearts that instruction doesn't call for. It won't take long time and I will update the process shortly.

Have a wonderfull weekend,
Natalia

Friday, January 9, 2015

Dollhouse Area Rug BATI ANADOLU - Petit Point Pattern


Today I would like to present you a new dollhouse miniature petit point pattern for an area rug - Bati Anadolu. This is a reproduction of an antique Turkish rug, 15th century.


This design can make a beautiful pillow in real size if stitched on 22 canvas.

The dragon motifs, that you can see in the field of the rug, were originated in the Far East. They represent a mythological creature believed to be the master of air and water. It is also the guard of the tree of life.

The pattern was recreated from a survived piece of an actual rug, depicted on this image:

321 x 297 stitches, 12 colors

22 canvas - 14.59" x 13.50" (37,06 x 34,29 cm)

40 count silk gauze - 8.03" x 7.42" (20,38 x 18,86 cm)

50 count silk gauze - 6.42" x 5.94" (16,31 x 15,09 cm)

There are also other patterns available based on that design:

Bati Runner:


Bati Staircase Runner


Bati Pillows:

The pattern is charted for stitching with DMC. However, I would advise to stitch with Gloriana silk, or another over dyed silk of your choice to give a rug that antique worn look.


Monday, January 5, 2015

Painting 1. Abraham Solomon "The Lion in Love"


Abraham Solomon (English, 1824-1862) "The Lion in Love", Oil.


Abraham Solomon was a successful Victorian painter specializing in contemporary social scenes and in other genre.

Born as the second son of Meyer Solomon, a Leghorn hat manufacturer, by his wife Catherine, in Sandys Street, Bishopsgate in east London. His father was one of the first Jews to be admitted to the freedom of the city of London. Two members of the family besides Abraham became artists. A younger brother, Simeon Solomon, acquired much acclaim as a Pre-Raphaelite painter. A sister, Rebecca Solomon, exhibited domestic subjects at the Royal Academy.

At the age of thirteen Abraham became a pupil in Sass's school of art in Bloomsbury, and in 1838 gained the Isis silver medal at the Society of Arts for a drawing from a statue. In 1839 he was admitted as a student of the Royal Academy, where he received in the same year a silver medal for drawing from the antique, and in 1843 another for drawing from the life.

Solomon died in Biarritz in France, of heart disease, on 19 December 1862. He married, on 10 May 1860, Ella, sister of Dr. Ernest Hart; she survived her husband.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Solomon

Friday, January 2, 2015

2015 Classes


This new year I've become a member of 3 needlework organizations: TNNA, ANG and EGA. The reason is simple: my widely growing interest in different types of Needlework Art.

I am taking a Correspondence 6 months course (ANG) Gated Secrets by Sandra Arthur that explores many techniques to add interest and challenge.


I also signed up for a Workshop by Mail through ANG, Baker’s Dozen designed by Michele Roberts, that looks like a lot of fun while studying 13 special specimen stitches and exploring the use of different threads, colors and texture, busting my stash.


I am starting a Japanese Embroidery course this year and will work on Phase 1, www.japaneseembroidery.com/


These courses along with other projects definitely will keep me busy during this new year and I am looking forward to it!

Happy New year!

Natalia