Things are slowly coming together.  I am finding that since I have no formal art education I am having problems creating depth or perspective in the piece.  It all looks flat to me.  I am trying to contour the snow into banks, does not really work but its better than not trying.  The couple of clumps of grass have not been user-friendly at all - they came out completely today and went back in and believe it or not, they look better now.  The water and ice looks cool, but it does not seem to fade back along the edge.  This is for sure an excerise in try, try again.

Comments

Mon, 01/13/2014 - 03:32

tonyaleacht

From what I have been able to see of other tapestries, you will need several shades of the same color and use them to create shadows. This gives the tapestry depth. (or the illusion of it.) The rest is closer objects will be bigger than objects further away. 

Hope that helps!

Tue, 01/14/2014 - 01:46

Artistry

Theresasc, I agree with with tonyaleacht, color has a lot to do with it. With three blues you could bring a lot of depth. You could also do that with several whites, to help define your snow banks, by using color blending techniques like hachures. For future designing, I like to use water colors or colored pencils ,on a copy of my drawing for the cartoon, to experiment where colors can be most effective and where I might want to use 3-5 tints/shades of one color. I suggest getting a color wheel, water colors or colored pencils, and a color theory book a small one, the big ones are very expensive , by either Itten or Albers. try playing around. Hope this helps Cathie
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 11:13

Artistry

Came back for a peek this a.m. And I can see what you intend. Your organic shapes are lovely. IF you don't have have a lot of other colors I would just go ahead with the same style, I think you'll have a nice piece! Cathie
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 14:36

theresasc

I am limited with yarn colors, I am stash-weaving on this project.  That is kind of a goal of mine this year, to just weave from my stash, so I am just going to have to make it work.

I almost pulled out the grasses this morning all together, but then decided to just leave them.  I believe that this just might turn out to be more folk-arty than an actual depiction, which I guess will be okay too.  

Mon, 01/20/2014 - 18:39

Kathe Todd-Hooker (not verified)

That depends on if you are doing a chene or a melange. When using multiple wefts you can also use opposite colours to creat shadows and depth. Remember that warm colours come forward and cool colours recede. The same with shadows. Also-Lights come forward and darks move backward visually. Melanges are similar colours. Chenes are opposites. You can do colour fades with either chenes are melanges. It just all depends on how you mix the yarns/wefts together on the bobbin. You can also incorporate embroidery floss into the weft bundles for more variety in colour and texture shifts while weaving a flat service.