Maps.

The Three Muses challenge this week is to incorporate or use maps in your artwork. I started off deciding that I wanted to use the new sheet of stamps (The Orient) I received from Ria of Home Impressions a couple of weeks ago and raided my old School Atlas, ripping out the map of the main part of Japan… I’ve used 3 of the images from that sheet and they’re all gorgeous!

Turning Japanese!

I have stitched almost everything, apart from the coin, to this piece of corrugated cardboard. It’s some sort of packaging because I didn’t make the hole in the upper part – it was already there! The chap riding the Koi Carp is about 4″x3″, stamped onto inked book text (The Pool of Tears chapter from an old Alice in Wonderland!). The ginko flowers are stamped onto some patterned scrapbook paper and the branch is stamped straight onto the fabric at the bottom.

I kept adding bits to this collage and I still wasn’t happy with it because it was all stitched in blue. It needed more colour, so I changed to orange cotton and added an orange flower too! Because the paper is all stitched onto the background, the map has rucked up in places and looks puffy – or as DH said, “Contoured!” It’s a very tactile piece and I’m quite pleased with the end result.

Off to work for the rest of this week, having done a considerable amount of work in the garden today, due to the glorious sunshine we’ve had in Cornwall for the past few days… I have probably overdone it, as my back is pretty sore, but you have to make the most of it here when it’s good weather!! 🙂

Posted by Rosie on April 13, 2010

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