Well, touch wood, Typepad seems to be able to publish images again, so let’s hope for the best…
Anyway, as I’ve probably bored you with before, all my time over the past weeks has been spent desperately trying to finish all the things I want to exhibit at our yearly NEOS (that’s North East Open Studios) event. This consists of a huge number of art events all over Aberdeenshire, and our local art group always has a big exhibition where I show some of my things and also give demonstrations of machine embroidery
Last week I took everything in to the framers to be finished off properly, so I can now draw a deep breath and relax a little. At least I’m not short of a few new things to show here!
Looking at the list of exhibition pictures, there are an awful lot of birds – probably 10 out of 12 pictures involve birds in some way. OK, I do tend to draw birds a lot more often than anything else, but I really should try to extend my repertoire! Anyway let’s start with one of these. I’m not sure where the idea came from, but for some reason I wanted to do a picture in dramatic shades of black and white, and this bird with the feathery tail came to mind. It’s unusual but it has a certain drama, so I’m reasonably happy with it
Featherbird
It has a certain Baroque feeling to it, and I think I feel a series of Baroque birds coming on. We’ll see what happens…
This is so beautiful! I love how you stitched the tail feathers.
Good luck at your show. I hope it’s a sell out!
beautiful depiction of what machine embroidery (and excellent digitizing) can do! Bravo, Mia!!! I still could not see the image on my Firefox e-mail program but was able to on the web! Good luck at the show.
Oh my gosh, Mia, that is beautiful. You are so talented! I know your exhibition will be well received. I really love the monotone dramatic effect.
The white bird is quite stunning, I love the tail feathers, such a grand display. I also really like the background. It feels like it has several dimensions, like a bower for inviting the ladies. I think you will do well with that one.
Best wishes for a good showing.
Oh My Gosh, I love this bird and his tail feathers! I can see him in ice blue on the back of my denim jacket ;} Best of Luck at your show!!