This isn’t drawing but I thought I would post what I have been doing lately. I joined a teabag exchange and I mailed this diptych abstract landscape out to its new home in the UK. The requirement was that we have to a ”alter” two teabags. I wanted to do some “slow stitching” by embroidering on this delicate substrate. I don’t have a vast knowledge of embroidery stitches so most are what I call “stab stitch”; you know, put the needle down and pull it up! I did some French knots and attempted some bullion knots, then used a simple blanket stitch edge to them finish off. It took a couple of days to figure out what to do with them. I just didn’t want to send the loose in the mail. What the heck would she do with them then!!?! An idea came to me, so I glued them down on some heavy watercolour/mixed media paper that I cut to 5 x 7”. If she likes it enough she could pop it into a frame (or not).
This is my first time doing something like this so I’m a little nervous about what she will think of it. I look forward to receiving hers in my mailbox.
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