Making a Halloween Decoration

I was inspired by a video about painting a ghost on an old thrift store painting in doing this project. The video that I'm referring to can be watched here. 

The object I decided to paint was not a painting, but instead a free-standing art piece that looked as if it needed some adjustments. I decided to change her into a ghost girl. 

I began by working on the flowers. I felt as if they needed to stand out more. 

I then adjusted the leaves and decided to give them more detail. 

I placed a skull near the flowers, and drew some blood around it. 

I then painted the dress white, and gave it spider motifs, such as spider webs in her hair and around her dress. I was partially inspired by a drawing of Victorian children in making her dress. 

And here is the final result: 

Before                             After 

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Do you like making your own Halloween decorations (if you celebrate)? Are you excited for Halloween in a few days? 

-Quinley

My Process of Making "The Sorceress's Hide-Away" | A Textile Art Piece

 

Greetings Travelers,

This is a continuation of this post where I talked about and showed my textile art pieces. However, since the videos that were posted in that post didn't show how I made it, I thought it would be time to show you my embroidery process and how I made this art piece: 

The backstory for this art piece is that the figure at the top (Rosalind by Arthur Hughes) is coming through a magical portal into the Sorceress's Hideaway. And the figure at the bottom is the Sorceress (Boreas by John William Waterhouse) performing a spell in her cauldron. 

Anyway, here is my process of making it. It took two days to finish making it. 

And this was also the first time I've recorded myself doing embroidery, so I will be doing more in the future. 😉

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Have you done embroidery? If you met a sorceress how would you react?

-Quinley 

Some Textile Art Pieces

I have recently started doing embroidery, it is a way for me to de-stress. I found when I do it I focus on what I'm sewing and end up forgetting why I'm stressed. 

A small update, you may have already noticed (since I did put it on my sidebar), I created a second YouTube Channel for my artwork (ex. Art, embroidery, and animation) called "Quinley's Art." You can check it out here 

But back to this post...along with photos of the art pieces, I will be posting videos of them, too. The videos will basically allow you to look at the art in different ways. 

Let's begin: 

This art piece is a mixture of embroidery, COPIC markers, and figures from pre-existing art pieces. The red haired figure is from John William Waterhouse's painting "Ophelia (1894)" and the other figure is from A painting of a girl and a unicorn. As far as I know the artist is unknown, but the model for the girl was Giulia Farnese. Anyway I put those two figures together in a forested scene that is different than the scenes they were in previously. My goal in this is to tell a different story with these figures, than the original paintings presented.  

Also, here is the video I made of the art piece.  

This I made for an embroidery challenge. I was given the fabric beforehand, so I didn't get to pick it out. The challenge was to how to use this as a backdrop for embroidery. So, I decided on a scene of a dragon and a castle. 

I'm not entirely sure if it is completely done, but at the moment I am done messing around with it.  

Here's the video of it. 

And lastly, this piece I made before the first one. I was experimenting with embroidering on paper, I had previously been writing in a note-book when I decided to embroider on the pages which then gave me the idea for this piece. 

I first drew in the circles, then embroidered the flowers in them, and continued till the page was full of flowers. I really like how it turned out in the end. 

Here's the video for it. 

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Which art piece is your favorite? Have you done embroidery? 

-Quinley