Illustrative Artists

Embroidered Wine Stains

Amelia Harnas creates these portraits using a combination of embroidery and wine stains. Via her website:

These portraits are created either by using a wax resist (much like batiks) and repeated wine stains with embroidery as a reinforcing drawing over the original design or wine on paper with machine sewing. These are my first experiments using wine, and I am excited to continue expanding upon these first results.

This is something which seems to take a lot of skill to get perfect but I think I could use this in future work. I have already done something similar but without the embroidery and wine (used batik). Maybe use free-machining on top? We'll see :)

Birds

Found these ink and watercolour birds by Abby Diamond. I love the line quality here. Maybe I could use this use of line in the work I've been doing with free-machining. Develop it further into something else, something even more interesting! Could use this technique in any drawing I do.
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