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]]>Frederiksen takes an unusual approach by zooming in on particular scenes and showing them out of context. This usually involves moments of high tension or ones that foreshadow future climactic happening. By doing so, the artist creates a visually appealing piece that often contains hints of dark humor.
According to Frederiksen, the high-tension moments and escalations that take place in cartoons take a back seat and are shrouded in playfulness. His goal is to make them more pronounced with his embroidery art, which he creates using a free-motion embroidery technique.
“Using familiar imagery, I like to examine fear, panic, toxic masculinity, anxiety, anticipation, and humor, all through the lens of the shared visual language of Looney Tunes cartoons,” Frederiksen explained in a recent interview with BOOOOOOOM!.
Frederiksen presented his intriguing embroidery works through solo exhibitions at The Flat in Milan, Italy, Galleri Urbane in Dallas, Texas, and the UNION Gallery in London, UK, among others. He also shares his work on social media.
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]]>While Fayle’s artistic reach encompasses mixed media, she is best known for her series of embroidered leaves. She applies threads to dried leaves, creating intricate pieces that have been fascinating art lovers worldwide.
Through her embroidery works, Fayle wants to explore the relationship between natural and fabricated material. She also puts a great emphasis on sustainability, wanting to reach a zero-waste point in her practice. The leaves she uses are collected from the area around her home in Richmond, Virginia, while the threads are usually procured from second had sources.
“Stitching, like agriculture, can be functional—a technical solution to join materials/a means of survival—or, both can be done purely in service of the soul, lifting the spirit through beauty and wonder,” she explains on her website.
Most of Hillary Waters Fayle’s works are available on her Instagram page, where she shares her newest creations. They can also be checked out in person as part of several permanent botanical exhibitions, including those in Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, and the Arboretum Kalmthout botanical garden in Kalmthout, Belgium.
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]]>“Visually, I love it when people bypass my work thinking it’s nothing other than a simple painting,” she admitted in an interview with Jung Katz. “Until they look a little closer and see that in fact it is fibers/thread. Then they have to proceed to look even closer.”
According to Clark, the process of transforming string into art struck her as something visually stimulating with complex simplicity. But her techniques also rely on her background in painting. Having graduated in Painting and Drawing from the University of Utah, she engages both traditional and innovative techniques in her work.
It was actually during her art studies that she explored the possibility of painting with thread. “My background in painting has allowed me to explore the material using techniques from the worlds of drawing and painting,” she explains.
Her exploration seems to have bared fruit, with her Instagram page alone attracting more than 10k fans. Here are some highlights from her page.
Finding Life
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]]>“I couldn’t afford to buy her anything, but I hoped to make up for it with my time,” she explains on her website. And so, she decided to take on embroidery. But learning how to embroider was one thing. Finding contemporary embroidery patterns that weren’t overly simplistic, let alone embroidered doll patterns, was a whole other ball game.
As she was making her own version of embroidered owls for her niece, Galletta soon discovered its calming, meditative effect. She became fascinated with embroidery: the vibrant colors, the countless variety of stitches, and the joy of crafting.
Now, after several years of improving her skills, she hopes to pass on her knowledge to others. Her brand produces DIY. embroidery kits, screenprints, and other goodies. “It was developed in the hopes of giving others the chance to make something precious with their own hands,” writes Galletta. A good enough reason, if any.
But which of her designs would you choose to make for yourself?
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Both will be available at Highly Strung, opening 28 November Thank you to @mishalweston for scanning my work so beautifully and being as invested in the details as I am.“Most of my pieces vary, but for my ideal piece, I start by taking a photograph of the subject, and then I edit the image —for me, contrast is really important, as are the colors— and then I usually work from a black-and-white reference,” relayed Clough in an interview with Rebel Girls Boundless. “I trace the line work onto whatever surface I’m embroidering on, and then I start ‘coloring it in’ with thread. I just think of it as, you know, tracing and coloring in. Which is like a child’s dream.”
Born in Cape Town, Clough completed her studies in art direction and graphic design at The Red and Yellow School before carving herself a niche in visual art, digital design, and “thing-making.” Her career path is as diverse as her creative interests, having worked in photography, graphic design, and VJing, before fully committing herself to the art of embroiderer.
Her career choice seems to have worked out for the best, with clients that include brands like Gucci, Adobe, and Nike, as well as renowned actress Drew Barrymore; and features in publications like the New York Times and the Evening Standard.
Follow her creative endeavors on Instagram.
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. I'm considering creating kits to order to make the process simpler for beginners and wondered what people who are interested in starting embroidery get stuck on? Is it getting supplies? The confidence to start? Making time? I will be hosting one small workshop in Cape Town during my show, Highly Strung on the 7 December! #embroidery #bordados #whataracket #lessonThe post Danielle Clough Adds a Colorful Twist to the Craft of Embroidery appeared first on TettyBetty.
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#mask #embroidery #vintageWith a Bachelor in Design Arts, as well as a Diploma in Printing and Graphic Art, she pursued it indeed. Based in Melbourne, Australia McKellar, she dips her toes in anything creative, including (but not limited to) art direction, illustration, print, packaging, branding, and lettering.
To this she usually adds a handmade twist, making her designs feel a tad more personal. This handmade feel especially comes off through her unique hand-embroideries, which are sewed on digital prints on fabric. Like her other creative passions, she attributes her love of embroidery to her environment.
“I learned about sewing at a young age,” she shared. “My mum used to make all of our clothes and we were given hand-embroidered singlets for birthdays as children.” Over the many years of her work, McKellar has collected a fair share of second-hand sewing reference books. “You don’t have to be a master at it to make it look special,” she says. “I transferred my drawings onto fabrics and started embroidering small details and have continued working like this.”
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hope the bees like it! Might have to make my little bees a painted bug hotel 
#bee #bees #beehive #wip #beekeeper #adelaide #honey #gardeningaustralia
——- Yesterday we took in the single biggest surrender of cats in our history. 9 adult Persians females, 1 adult Ragdoll female, 1 adult Persian Male and 10 Persian kittens ranging from 9-16 weeks of age – a total of 21 new arrivals. All of the cats and kittens are in atrocious physical and mental condition. They have huge flea and worm burdens, filthy matted coats, infected eyes, some have cat flu, some have ringworm all are extremely timid and emotionally shut down. There is a very long and expensive road ahead for these cats and kittens. They all require months of physical and mental rehabilitation, they all need to be desexed and vaccinated, they all need to be groomed and most if not all of the adults will need dental surgery. The costs involved in providing all of this, in addition to food, litter, parasite treatments and other supplies will cost well over $10,000 and as a small, self-funded rescue group, we are in desperate need of financial support to treat and rehabilitate these cats. Please consider making a donation towards the enormous costs involved in such a massive rescue operation. #cat #cats #catsofinstagram #gofundme #bigcartel #catpainting #inkpainting #meow #love #help #adoptdontshop
Come & make masks with me! I'll be teaching at @thewindsorworkshop on Sunday 22nd May – we'll make a wearable mask using collaged vintage flowers and animals. We'll also use sequins and threads, gold pens and fancy bits to embellish
I think it'd be a lovely Mother's Day gift 
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#needlepainting #embroidery #threadpainting #handstitched #rabbit“I’m always a bit torn between referring to my work as ‘illustration’ or ‘embroidery’, having gone into it with the mindset of an illustrator and having no background in traditional crafts,” she admitted in an interview with Textile Artist. “And yet, I spend too much time playing around with fabric and sewing needles to feel I can entirely say I’m an illustrator – but I like to think that’s what people find interesting about my art, that it is in a space between embroidery and painting.”
“I think I fell in love with the tactile nature of sewing and working with fabric, but I don’t regret any of the hours spent drawing as it informs how I work now,” she says. “I find I get a sense of satisfaction from working with textiles that I never had with 2D mediums.”
Based in York, Giordano has been wholly dedicated to her craft since graduating in 2011, attracting notable clients such as Penguin, Vintage Books, Bloomsbury, and Liberty. Her embroideries, centered around the natural world. are a product of both references as well as her rich imagination.
Working on unbleached calico that she dyes by hand, as well as single strands of sewing thread (either cotton or polyester), Giordano’s designs are drawn onto the fabric with a vanishing fabric marker; with each of her pieces taking anything between one day and several weeks to complete.
It’s a delicate process, and one that requires much patience, but judging by her finished products – her hard work is well worth the effort.
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]]>“Embroidery also comes with a lot of baggage,” remarked Kingdom in an interview with Textile Artist. “It has often been dismissed and overlooked; perceived as decorative, a school-girl craft, fussily old-fashioned, small. And that is precisely what attracted me to it.”
Having studied fine art, she began using thread as a sketching tool to pursue both of her greatest passions: embroidery and drawing. “It’s deceptively pretty, unapologetically female, traditional and naive,” says Kingdom, describing the qualities of embroidery. “My work tries to capture murky ideas brewing around in my head, and the evocative nature of figures in stitch better conveys those ideas than other mediums can.”
Using a thread as a sketching tool also allows her to simultaneously honor and undermine the tradition of needlework that came before her. “Embroidery became my own private refuge,” she explains. “The effects of embroidery seemed otherworldly and captured my imagination as the perfect way to explore secret thoughts.”
Take a closer look.
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this was an interesting trial at lavender fields! I was really happy with how they turned out so I'm now completing a four-inch piece (without the yellow!) which will be up on Etsy on Saturday evening! . . . #embroideryinstaguild #embroidelicious #embroiderylove #embroideryart #embroidery #threadpainting #threadpainting #britishstitchers #stitchersofinstagram #stitching #stitches #chromato_mania #dmcembroidery #dmcthreads #dmc #anchorthreads #aerialarts #aerialview #aerialart #flowerstagram #flowerfield #lavender #lavenderfields #oilseedrape #canola #canolafields #becreative #modernembroidery #textileartist“To me, everything around me is emphasised, so I guess it makes sense that I perhaps emphasize things like colour in my art too, as it seems natural to me,” the artist told Bored Panda in an interview.
She has always been an artsy type, however, her embroidery journey started when she saw some beautiful embroidery landscapes from other artists.
“I picked some nice blues and greens out my grandmother’s old embroidery tin in October 2018 and had my first go, and I haven’t been bored since,” she added.
She admits that she occasionally uses Google Earth to get inspiration, however, her landscapes are all made up in her head.
“My aerial pieces aren’t true to life or replications of real places—I tried one of those recently and didn’t enjoy it at all, it removes the imagination element and I just want to be able to do whatever I want,” she added.
To see her creations, check out the gallery below.
a gentle stream flowing past meadows of fresh blooming flowers! Started it in May, finally picked it back up and finished it 
this piece is available on my Etsy! (EDIT: sold) . . . #embroideryinstaguild #embroidelicious #embroiderylove #embroideryart #embroidery #handembroidery #threadpainting #britishstitchers #becreative #dmcembroidery #dmcthreads #dmc #anchorthreads #makersgonnamake #stitchersofinstagram #stitching #stitches #aerialart #aerialarts #aerialview #modernembroidery #chromato_mania #greenaesthetic #textileartist #flowerstagram #flowers #craftstagram #flowerfield
what is your favourite and least favourite part of Autumn? For me, my favourite is the coolness after the too hot summer 
. . Now on my Etsy! Link in my bio . . #embroideryinstaguild #embroideredlandscape #embroidelicious #embroideryart #embroideryinprogress #handembroidery #feelingstitchyig #britishstitchers #stitchersofinstagram #stitchersgonnastitch #stitching #stitches #stitchery #makersgonnamake #threadpainting #needlepainting #contemporaryembroidery #modernembroidery #autumnvibes
the last one wasn't the best quality! It's rare I'm proud of a piece I've made, but I am of this one 
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#goldworkembroidery #goldwork #contemporaryembroidery #textilesworkshop #stitchery“Goldwork is an area of embroidery which is sometimes perceived to be somewhat traditional and has many rules,” she added. “To me, a rule of how something must be worked was at some point a new invention itself, and that excites me and keeps me inspired to explore what metal threads can do, without worrying if I am doing it ‘right’.”
Her technique relies on the rich heritage of embroidery, to which she adds her own voice and personality. She also teaches embroidery through workshops, passing on her know-how to others.
But though she’s now fully committed to her craft, there was a time when Newton treated embroidery as a mere hobby. “One day, I showed my stitching to my friend Kathleen who had studied art in London,” she recalled, “and she pointed out that I could actually study embroidery and that it didn’t just have to be a hobby.”
The rest was history.
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