Minoan pots

Just over a week ago I visited western Crete and viewed some more Minoan sites and their artefacts. There have been some spectacular recent finds which have shed more light on this ancient culture.
I love the earthy colours, patterns and decorations of the pots and with a view to making an embroidery inspired by the pots I collected some of my photographs together.

Time to get out my sketchbook and have a go at some patterns inspired by the Minoan ones.

 I had a go at exploring the pot shapes. 

I then cut a stencil of a pot shape  scraping a mixture of paint, polyfilla and PVA glue all mixed with water through the stencil or using the cut out as a resist.

I explored colour and stitch but settled on the original earthy colours.

I have now made my pot ready for the embroidery and to consider how to make the background.