Sweet they are not! I think that this is an image of an old soldier. He has his front top teeth missing - you can see the scar on his lip.
I also have a theory that Leonardo da Vinci was a time traveller called Leonard Vincent (The blackwork is of a Leonardo sketch by the way). At least this would account for all his futuristic designs.
Anyway, back to blackwork: the jawline was interesting to do, but it has worked out I think. I have used open zig zag stitch for the lips, reduced to half scale - otherwise it would have been too sketchy. The lips aren't quite finished yet. This week's task is to get the whole mouth area finished.
This photograph is a few days old, but I didn't want you to have too much excitement all at once! Now the eyes are starting to appear it is a bit more obvious what the image is.
I have to use a total of 5 different stitches. The face is definitely waffle stitch. The hair is small diamond stitch, swinging the "tail" to give the direction of the curls. I am not sure about that, but we'll see what it looks like.
This really is all about attention to detail.
I am sorry about the gap in blogging, put it down to holidays, family, Christmas ................ All my sewing reached a hiatus, but I am back at it now.
I am enjoying blackwork. It felt at first as if I was groping about in the dark, but things seem to be falling into place a little more now. Anyway, this is a bit of a retrospective picture. Things have moved on, but I will save that for another day.
I know that it still looks like nothing but ................
I am using waffle stitch for the face, which is really pretty. So I thought that I would include a close up of the stitch.
The shading is fun. I annoy Tracy by referring to it as "Paint by numbers" in due deference to my total lack of artistic ability.
