Showing posts with label open zig zag stitch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label open zig zag stitch. Show all posts

Friday, 31 January 2014

Sweet lips!

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.