Featured Artist for April, Edgar Degas.

Sunset from a Plane Window.

Workshop in Progress.

Having worked quite a bit with Lutradur over the past few years, I was asked to run a workshop at our local Embroiderers Guild as an introduction to the medium for interested members.

The past month has been very busy with lots of other things, but I also managed to make lots of samples for the workshop and also to write up a couple of pages of notes for the participants. There were just over 20 people in the group and they all seemed to have a lot of fun.

I'm not sure if anyone will go on to use Lutradur in their work though, it will be interesting to see at the next Guild exhibition later in the year. It's to be called Colours of the Gallaxy.

Digitized Version of The Coffee Set.

The Coffee Set after Applying a Filter in Photoshop.

The Coffee Set by Criss Canning.

The artist chosen by the Stitched Together group this month is Criss Canning, one of Australia's leading still life artists. Her paintings of flowers in beautiful vases are easily recognisable, but I have chosen to work from her painting of a black, white and yellow coffee set. Not content with choosing an atypical work by Canning, I have also applied a filter in Photoshop to reach my final design. I digitzed the main elements of the design with my Bernina software and finished it off with the old Pfaff workhorse.

Happy Birthday Rohan!

I belong to a group called Stitched Together, who all met at College when studying Art and design in the late 1990s. Since finishing our course we have been meeting almost every month and every second year we mount an exhibition, we have had 3. In the alternate year we set some sort of challege to work on instead. This year we have each chosen an artist, and each person in the group is to make an A5 piece reflecting the work of the artist chosen for that month. The artist chosen for this month is Australian book illustrator Graeme Base. This is my piece from his book The Discovery of Dragons.