Embroidered Architecture
Embroidered Architecture by Stephanie Clark
Stephanie K. Clark paints architecture using spools of thread. Her exquisitely embroidered pieces feature miniature homes from the ornate dwellings of the victorian era to the low and sleek creations of the mid-century. Each scene is realized in straight lines of colored thread built up into the home. Her delicate work with the needle brings out brick and wood siding as if it were real. In contrast, her surrounding landscapes are minimalist. Palm trees, woodland and hedges are sketched in simple black lines.
When I embroider on canvas it feels like oils; it flows, it blends, and its rich, says the artist on her website. When I embroider on loose shear or silk, its like a watercolor; its delicate, the thread goes where it wants to go, and it moves with the fabric.
Nowhere does her work get more painterly than in her recent series of clouds, featuring from May 3 to June 14 at the Good Eye Gallery in LA. See more of her work on her personal site or Instagram .
(via The Jealous Curator and Colossal )
http://www.visualnews.com/2015/04/30/embroidered-architecture-by-stephanie-clark/
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I love architecture, my wife love embroidery and we both love art.
When I came across this collection we were both studying the pictures on our respective computers and talking about the pictures and the medium over dinner
Enjoy!
Wonderful craftsmanship. It's a magnificent "CREATIVE ART".
WOW...just....WOW These are beautiful. I wonder how long it took to make these.....
Buzz
Totally agree - my mother-in-lw and my wife are both very creative with a needle and thread, but both agree that this is a number of steps beyond everyday embroidery
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for the feedback
Nona
Exactly my reaction
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You're welcome
I love embroidery-- but would not attempt to do this! I try to copy my great-great grandmother's skills and patterns.
My favorite it the camper one! That would be so great to have in our camper!
Thanks for the article!
As a child I embroidered, but then I lost interest.....
Dowser
My wife is quite adept at most aspects of sewing and needle work of all kinds, but she said this was a significant number of levels above anything she could do or would try to do.
But is lovely to look at
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I will try to find the shirt I embroidered for my mother, take a picture, and put it here. It's nothing superspengarlic, but I worked on it for over a year...
Of course, I'm at my mother's house, and left my camera at home... But, I'll try, somehow!
I personally would LOVE to see it Dowser!!!
Drat. It is in the wardrobe that I carefully taped up several months ago... I'll find it, someday...
Dowser
I would love to see it
I have a picture of a needle point dragon my wife did for the middle son's jacket years ago that she worked on for close to a year as well.
The jacket wore out, but he framed the dragon and it hangs in his family room to this day
Wow!!! He appreciated the work she put in on it!
I just copied the stitches on the crazy quilt my gg-grandmother and her daughters, my g-grandmother made...
Naturally, I can't find my pictures of THAT, either...
Feronia
I really liked how the house was the whole focus but did not know what it was called, thanks for that information and for the feedback
Glad you liked them
Patience grasshopper....remember in order to find what we seek, we must first stop looking!
Doesn't that figure???
OK, I'm going through pictures, trying to find family pictures to put on a cd for everyone for the reunion... And I finally found some of the closeup pictures I took of my gg grandmother's quilt. Still no luck on the shirt... I copied the edging designs, not the pictures..
GORGEOUS! Thank you Dear Dowser for going through all of the trouble for us!!
I'm looking for all my scans so that I can make a CD of family pictures for this reunion! It was no trouble at all!
Some of my family's pictures were obviously made post-mortem, I think... Then again, I hate to think what some of my descendants will think of me! (Who is that old lady? She could lose some weight, couldn't she? What is her hair doing in a knot on her head?) I scanned in a photo album from the 1870s, and then one from 1880-1895, about. Found all kinds of people I don't know who they are!
What treasures you have!!
OK, I have to share this. I knew these two, when they were old men... Neither one married, and I guess I now know why. I loved them-- they both taught Sunday School and were very kind men! The Bruce boys, circa 1895. They don't look happy, do they?
No reply signs.....ggrrr......Dowser, I'm sorry, butthe pic you posted of the Bruce brothers cracked me up! I hope you aren't stressing out and workingtoo much.You're health is more important.
I know! I guess this was the custom back then... Although then surely don't look happy about it. They were dear men, who farmed 1500 acres for a living-- well, along with their sharecroppers. When they died, they were worth quite a lot from the land, but they had no electricity, and it was 1967 and 1969. They were very kind to me! This is the only picture I have of them.
If there was a photo of me in an outfit like that I wouldn't look happy either.
That quilt is more like the stuff I'm accustomed to seeing from my grandmother. I have no idea how many she made but it was quite a few of them. They are lovely.
I don't think any old photos of people looked too happy in those day Buzz. Hey thanks for the guitar photo. That one looked just like one I have. I was trying to see the name on the headstock.
These are seriously cool.
I want.
:~)
Larry
Thanks for the feedback
Dowser
Wow that is beautiful!