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Gail Stafford’s Landscape Features class began officially on Friday.

Before Friday’s class notes came out, I wanted to make a 2″ test of the three Weeks Dye Works threads using the random Satin stitch. I’m using Copic markers rather than paint to cover the canvas.

I can see the value of stitching in a real design as Gail suggests rather than this type of swatch stitching because I don’t think I learned much, except I like the colors together and think thread blending these would make an interesting sky. Perhaps a storm moving in using the left and right threads. A sunrise using the left 2 threads.

So, I moved to the line drawn canvas to test stitches on a painted area and unpainted area this time with Impressions. Before I covered all the paint on the left half, I decided to change to a random split stitch which smoothed out the appearance. I stayed with split stitch on the non-painted center right area and then returned to the Satin stitch on the far right side. The paint definitely makes a difference now. I can visualize what the lighter coverage as from the swatch with the light coverage of the Impressions. 

As you can see, I painted half of the distant trees and water and one of the bushes to test more stitches. I don’t have another green marker to color the grassy area (yet).