anyway, it will be completely done before the S & C show in October. I think I am quite happy with it.
Hubby keeps telling me I've got to put in some teeth. He thinks it looks like he has no teeth. I tried but have a lot of trouble getting that right. I have hooked some but they seem to overtake the mouth and look more like horse teeth. Maybe I need to use some yarn and just hook an illusion, I don't know. Any ideas are welcome.
Good work Petal! What about, instead of hooking teeth, you just remove the stitching and leave the hessian. Kaffe Fasset did that in a portrait tapestry once and it looked good.
ReplyDeleteThanks girls. That's a good thought Robyne, but I tried that and it was too light. When you look at yourself in the mirror, the inside of your mouth usually looks dark, thus the dark wool that I hooked there.
DeleteWow, fantastic Chris! A true piece of art....congrats x
ReplyDeleteLoving this Chris. As for teeth, how about a quite dark 'light' in a very small cut to suggest teeth. Do any of the portraits in the books you have show teeth? If so, I wonder how they hooked them in? Joy
ReplyDeleteYour rug looks fantastic. As for the teeth I think that a very fine cut of off-white or fine yarn just under the darker line as to show just the very edge of some bottom teeth. Not all the whole length of the mouth as I think it would be too much. Please take this as just my unexperienced opinion only.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with this.
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