Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve last written here – I’ve
been confined to bed for a couple of weeks with a back problem. However things
are slowly getting better and I’m now able to sit at the computer for long
enough to post something
Heron in the Waterhouse style
This hasn't turned out quite as I wanted. I did it after the
style of Alfred Waterhouse, one of my favourite artists, who designed the
wonderful terra-cotta reliefs of plants and animals in the Natural History
Museum in London. (There don’t seem to be many pictures of this work on the
web, but here are a few small sketches: http://www.architectureweek.com/2003/1022/culture_2-2.html)
This heron is more or less in the Waterhouse style, but as
with so many of my designs I haven’t got the colours quite right on this first stitchout.
I chose intense blues for the bird in an effort to make him stand out against
the background, but now I think that both the bird and the background should be in more muted
tones. And maybe there should be some more detailing in the background foliage. And maybe the bird should be more obviously standing on something – at the moment he looks a bit as if he were suspended in air. However all these thinsg are easy enough to fix when I do the next version
One advantage of being unable to move for so long is that I’ve
come up with all kinds of ideas for future work, and yesterday, on my first day
of sitting up, I managed to do 28 sketches. All I need to do now is get back to
the digitising
I really love your idea you have said well that “This heron is more or less in the Waterhouse style, but as with so many of my designs I haven’t got the colours quite right on this first stitchout.” keep it going dieng to see more designs