Michael Portillo is a British politician who has recently
appeared on television as the presenter of a travel show. His taste in colours
(as evinced by his on-screen wardrobe) is bizarre, to say the least, and I
watch his programme with fascination each week to see what extremes of colour
combinations he’ll come up with this time. The other week I set myself a
challenge: to come up with a design that would use the same colour combination
as his outfit of sky-blue trousers, salmon-pink shirt, and lime-green jacket.
It took a while before a suitable subject occurred to me,
but I eventually settled on a folk-arty horse along the same lines as a Swedish
Dala horse, and here’s the result. The background and applique fabrics are
hand-painted and stamped with simple motifs, which give a nice textured feel.
Actually the colour combination wasn’t all that bad – anyway it looks a lot
better on the horse than it did on Mr Portillo!
Well, maybe it's not that bad….