Another tag video was put out on Friday by Anne. This week the prompt was called Tiny-scapes. Create a tiny landscape on your tag. How co-incidental that I had just created a landscape for the Landline quilt.
After watching the video and looking through my photos for inspiration I decided that another beach-scape was what I wanted to create. Before starting I decided to hunt for fabrics and found some cheesecloth, linen and aida. All whites or creams so out came the liquid watercolour and fabric medium for some colour play. Some interesting results as I did not wet or treat the fabric before painting with the colours. I added some fabric medium to one colour pot and just played around.
After the fabric had dried It was time to cut and add layers to a base fabric to create a loose interpretation of these photos. I wanted to have a clear sky and a little more in the foreground than just the rocks but with the waves breaking across the tiny-scape.
I found the cheescloth was ideal for folding over to create a wave structure and for the sea as the dying process had created a darker line near the edges of the fabric that was useful for the horizon. The linen seemed a good choice for the sky as it had a different texture even though it was dyed with the same colours. Some other colours for the rocks and sand and then it was time to stitch it down. Last thing was to add some detail with stitches and some silk tops. Added a very unrealistic sun because creating the thread covered rings is so satisfying. Fly stitch birds in my sky as a way of linking back to previous tags. So much fun to create such a tiny-scape.
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