Talk about putting myself out of my comfort zone! With no final idea of what I was aiming for I began by dying some different fabrics and tearing them up to form four small 'picture' bases, much in the way that I had done for the Gitbarrows pieces. Click here for that blog. Anyway, after composing the pieces I used the embellisher to 'stitch' the layers together and to distress some of the fabrics. Looking at them I then decided to stitch them together as one long piece - based on the textures in caves - and began to machine stitch and hand stitch into them. Finally I added wax to some areas, before scraping into the wax and pushing oil paint into the scratches - a technique used by Debbie Lydon and learnt on the Fibre Arts Take Two course that I am doing - although I have had a six month break from it! Hopefully the piece reflects the layered and rippled nature of cave deposits, with the wax relating to the shiny smooth nature of the deposits.
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| Initial pieceing ... |
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| Using the embellisher to join and distress the fabrics. |
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| Detail before waxing... |
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| The final piece ..and detail below... |
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