Drawing for Textiles
For the last two weeks I have been taking an on-line course called Drawing for Textiles D4T by the wonderful textile artist Dionne Swift. In the first week I had fun drawing some small objects , really enlarged , using a variety of techniques. My objects ( some family heirlooms here) and examples of the large crazy drawings I made are below. I say crazy , because of the fun drawing techniques and because they felt to have little connection with the objects by the time I had finished - I think that was the idea really. We then had to seek out gems in the masses of lines. I found quite a few I liked and cut them out, making a little book for future reference. Then came the textile part. Using sewing and embellishing to make textile lines , in order to repaint the gems. Great fun even…