{"id":6900,"date":"2021-08-12T11:41:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T16:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=6900"},"modified":"2021-08-12T11:41:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T16:41:21","slug":"very-small-pieces-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=6900","title":{"rendered":"Very Small Pieces, 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Pinterest I found a lovely way to present lots of little snippets of textile fibre and even painted art in a Pinterest image<\/a> by UK artist Mary Morris, and there are more images of this work here<\/a> It’s a fabulous work, so I saved the image, and have been thinking about it for many months. It bubbled to the top of my mind during the The Stitch Club workshop by Gwen Hedley<\/em>, and it struck me that this would be a good time to try to make a small shadow box style presentation for the paint+stitch work I did. These boxes are about 2″ square, and I got far enough with the sample to know it could work for me, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Construction stages for a shadow box style presentation of fibre and stitch segments<\/em><\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I did another one for one of the small works\/samples I’m doing in the SAQA 100 Days Reboot challenge I’m doing. This time the boxes are a bit smaller \ud83d\ude42 so that four fit in the allotted 3.25″ sq space. I stiffened the walls a bit by painting them with gold+medium mix – but when dried the walls certainly are stiffer, though the gold was too dilute for any great effect: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The boxes are made from the same lightweight canvas, but making this sample showed me:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • The boxes are just too small – as the wobbly walls between corners are quite pronounced on such a small thing<\/li>
  • I think some stitching in the construction is needed to draw the sides of contiguous boxes closer together <\/li>
  • For flat things inside, the height of the box walls needs to be a bit lower still <\/li>
  • but it would be fine for stuffed, slightly puffy forms inside each box<\/li>
  • The gold’s too dilute – there’s no dramatic effect.<\/li>
  • Spray painting with gold or other colour after<\/em> construction’s complete will be better<\/li>
  • This is definitely worth tweaking and doing again.<\/em><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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