Not far from here, on the road down to Royal Deeside, there is a strange little birch forest. The trees aren’t very big, but they’re twisted and ancient
and covered with lichens and mushrooms, and there always seems something mysterious and haunted about the place. It reminds me of illustrations by Rackham, or by Tenniel for Alice in Wonderland.
The old forest at Dinnet
The other day as we were driving through it I started musing about mythological creatures who might live there, and I suddenly “saw” the images of silent deer moving among the strange old trees. That was enough to spark off the idea of a design, with mystic, transparent deer in a birch forest.
Magic deer in the Mystic Forest
The shapes of the deer are broken up by the blotchy white trunks of the trees, which I think gives them a strange, unworldly feeling. Everything is done in fill stitching at a very low density, which helps give the feeling of light passing through the shapes
Love the misty, mystic deer in the birch trees!
Love your mystical, magical, fantasy forest. Your scene has such an ethereal quality about it.
Gail
This is lovely. Where I live we have a haunted woods across the street, but it is very different from your woods. Things like this add a little mystery to life, don’t you think?
Brilliant! Love this effect! It is indeed haunting.
Love this forest and its inhabitants !
Thanks Mia for this poetic moment
Your imagination and depiction are wonderful!
The deer are excellent! I love your deer!
So beautiful!
Oh, my… Heart-stopping. Speaks of time here and now, and passing into the mist. Layers of the life lived in each place. And a reminder that there is so much more to a place than our self-centeredness. Such a relief.
I love it!!
This is how we tell difference between Art and Craft. Amazing how haunting and charming the art work is and how well it reflects the picture….
I just thought maybe top of the trees needed a bit more light through them to tell difference between tops and bottoms… Just a thought…
My favourite of yours by far!
Love this design. Is the design for sale?