Monday 9 January 2012

Doodle Page - Japan

Of all the Doodle Pages, I think that this one was my favourite. The subject matter appealed to me of course, but I liked the scene that was developing when the page came to me.

My first thought was to do something in Japanese embroidery but I kept looking at the empty sky and thinking that I wanted to add some clouds and the sun. In the end I decided to use some of the kinsai techniques that I learnt from Midori-san. I cut masks from sticky back plastic. First I used a brush to stencil the clouds using silver paste, fading out towards the bottom edge. I then stencilled the sun with dark gold paste building up a solid covering. I make the sun look like it was shimmering I couched a twisted gold thread around the edge.


I liked this page so much I was reluctant to send it onto the next stitcher!

Happy Stitching

3 comments:

Elizabeth Braun said...

So, have you been out to Japan yet? What about the language (beyond the embroidery terms)? Interested in that at all?

Just curious.=) Nice pic, I like the subject matter too.

Rachel said...

It's charming - not surprised you liked it so much!

Moonsilk Stitches said...

I really like this--it's a great addition to the page. Very creative.