11 March 2007

First attempt


This is my first attempt at painting knitting... it's quite a challenge to get the feeling of fluffy fibre with a water-based flowing medium! This is my 'birdy' teapot cover which I made last year. I have shifted the colour of the table-top using Photoshop - it is brown in the original painting, but looks much better as green!

Medium : watercolour, coloured pencil

7 comments:

  1. Wow - that's so close to real! Well done. :)

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  2. Jejune I have just had a vision.

    I'm sure there's a new market there, in this knitting obsessed world we inhabit - knit-painting!!! I love that teapot picture - you should do some more! I'm sure there's a niche there.

    No, really.

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  3. Way ahead of you Bells ;) I did a pretty thorough web search late last year, and I couldn't find practically any knit-related paintings... so it's definitely on my mind!

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  4. gorgeous! the whole concept of knitting painting made me laugh out loud - people will be wanting tshirts next :)

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  5. wow, u r talented jejune. It's lovely.

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  6. Thank you ladies - blush - :)
    I actually already have a Cafe Press store set up, maybe I should be putting knitting watercolours up there instead of my collages (which don't sell)?

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  7. cute! and what about collages using only pictures of knitted fabrics? (or an obvious amount of knitted fabrics).

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