Meditative Stitching

Meditative Doodling

As part of our online embroidery meeting we were introduced to meditative doodling where you fill in a shape with lines and shapes.

I used a black pen on white paper and a white pen on black paper.

The method produces some pleasing patterns that can easily be converted to stitch.

I thought about what shape I would use and thought a fish might work well. I drew the outline on some green material and then reminded myself of the line stitches I knew so I could fill in the shape of the fish. I decided to make it a bright and cheerful fish using bright colours.

Sketchbook Work

 During lockdown I have been doing a lot of work in my sketchbooks. I have been  building layers using mixed media working into the pages over and over again. 

Sketchbook

Monoprinted leaves on painted background and over painted  stencil on deli paper.

Scraped paint background, block printed,  circle cut outs.

Water colour background, rubbed circles, crayon squares, traced pot.

Mosaic photo over painted background, painted square stencil on photo, dried leaf.

Printed background, hand drawn poppy seed heads, pen drawn lines and handwriting.

As above

Photos of blue material cut into triangles pasted onto print and painted background.

Scraped paint, printed wide vertical lines, pen drawn narrow red lines.

Painted background, felt pen writing,  circular photo.

Photo, ink background, block print.

Collage, mono printed leaves.

Photo, painted background, mono printed vase, brush shapes.

Painted and printed background, block printed, drawing, writing.

Collage, cut-out shapes, painted background, pen drawing.

Printed background, brush painted shapes, pen drawing.

Ink background, eco leaf print, mono printed vase, stencilling.

Amaryllis

 Just before Christmas I bought an Amaryllis bulb to grow in the hope that it would bring some cheery colourfulness into my home during the Winter. It has not disappointed as you can see below.