Free machine embroidery on felted wool blanket. I used
the embellisher to add streaks of ochre and white wool tops to the fabric
before stitching, and then more afterwards to blend the “drawings” into the
background. Burmilana and cotton threads gave me thick and thin lines. Finally
the roughly cut edges were distressed with the embellisher.
Source picture
“Prehistoric Ardèche cave art brought to
life in €55m replica. France is opening up the oldest art gallery in
the world – although the Caverne du Pont d’Arc is a meticulously conceived
replica of the nearby cave and its 36,000-year-old paintings.”
Perfect fake … artists used techniques from the
paleolithic era to recreate the Caverne du Pont d’Arc in the Ardèche.
Photograph: Guillaume Horcajuelo/EPA
Sample design
This isn’t a
specific section of the cave wall. I copied a few manageable-looking animals
and partial drawings into my own arrangement. As usual the aim isn’t accurate
reproduction – my challenge here was to make my embroidered sketches blend into
the “rock” so that they didn’t resemble stitching at all. I’m quite pleased
with how that worked, the technique might even some potential!
3 comments:
This works so well! Particularly love the aurochs, top right. :o)
Yes, you really have successfully blended the stitch into the background rock. I love primitive art and rock paintings.
Absolutely more of this. Caught the essence perfectly.
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