I didn't post yesterdays work because, frankly it looks awful at the beginning. Thread colours seem wrong and incomplete. It's not until you have gone over the work and achieved a certain mix and density of colour that it begins to look right.
This piece is still not finished. I can't complete the edges the way I want until it is attached to the background and THAT is still a 64thousand dollar question ( who remembers that show).
I started with the face.
The placement of the nose was critical so I drew and used a transparent tearway stabilizer
His nose is in the right place and the fur around the eyes and nose is lying is the correct direction.
The colours are still rather one dimensional yet.
The amount of quilting is built up as each additional colour is applied. This view makes it very apparent that something this size is thread sketched as opposed to thread painted. Unlike smaller pieces, lots of the original fabric is seen.
So here we are at the end of this part. The edges of the different fabrics are beginning to blend.
I added one more photo of an overexposed close up. The stitching is hard to photograph with my little camera but this photo gives you some idea of the colour interplay between the fabric and the thread.
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