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Image of the Month: Lesley Bower ASGFA
I was recently commissioned to create a site-specific work for my friend’s house in Puglia. The work could feature the olive tree growing in the wide courtyard facing the owners’ olive grove below. My friend suffers from macular degeneration and described to me … Continue reading
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Tagged collage, drawing, Image of the Month, Landscape, Lesley Bower, Olive Tree, painting, SGFA
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Image of the Month – Glimpses of Summer by Sally Wilson ASGFA
This piece was produced for the 2013 National Stitch/Madeira competition. The criteria is to create a piece which epitomises the given title by machine embroidery or hand stitching. I use a very basic Bernina sewing machine in straight stitch mode … Continue reading
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Tagged 2013, drawing, Garden, Glimpses of Summer, Image of the Month, Madeira Competition, National Stitch Competition, Sally Wilson, Sewing, Stitch, thread
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Image of the Month – Low Tide, Putney by Wendy Winfield ASGFA
Ever since I moved back to Kingston more than twenty years ago the urban Thames has been a constant draw. An attraction generally as a motif and specifically an opportunity to get down onto the strand at low-tide with an … Continue reading
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Tagged charcoal, Drawing Society, Image of the Month, Putney, Putney Bridge, SGFA, Urban Landscape, wing
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Image of the Month – A Silhouette of Michael Herbert by Charles Burns SGFA
This is not exactly a silhouette, but what is known amongst us silhouettists as a portrait ‘en grisaille’. This started life as a freehand cutting – cut from laid white paper with scissors – which was then embellished using a … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Burns, drawing, Image of the Month, Michael Herbert, Paper cutting, portrait, scissors, SGFA, silhouette
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