You can not only paint sketches but embroider!
Sketching is a modern and very popular drawing style. Nowadays it helps to convey ideas, impression and emotion onto paper as quickly and beautiful as possible. Such sketches are perfect for depicting miniature objects in which you can emphasize small details, beauty of lines and shapes. It can be food, plants, architecture and travel plots.
Sketching is often used by illustrators, designers, architects and fashion designers. People collect them and decorate postcards and interiors. As a rule, sketches should be drawn in special notebooks – they are sketchbooks. The main tools for work are liners, markers, pastel pencils and watercolour. You do not necessarily nave art education to master this technique. You just need to be inspired by works of different people and to buy necessary tools!
Embroidery, as a picture, captures the appetizing beauty of figs.
«Drawing» with needle
Sketching has gradually integrated into handcraft. For instance, brand PANNA has produced unique kit series «Sketches». Try to «draw» with needle such city sights as GM-7268 Charleston Harbor, GM-7258 Gooderham Building, GM-7269 New York City Subway and GM-7266 Steiner Street. Before your eyes a wonderfully embroidered composition will turn into a picturesque sketch. The kits contain all the necessary tools and materials for comfortable handcraft.
Collect the whole series and decorate your room or study!
Distinctive features of embroidery in sketching style
• Combination of different techniques as counted cross stitch, half cross stitch, backstitch, is distinctive features of embroidery in sketching style. Various techniques make the picture more realistic and give it volume as if it is done with strokes. And lack of clear boundaries produces an effect of incompleteness.
• It uses the backstich embroidery technique (translated from English as "back stitch"), which is very similar to sketching due to the thin outline and small details. The resulted picture gets very clear and voluminous.
• Pay attention to fabric colour. You can often see pearl gray and beige colours – they match the canvas colour.
• Standard embroidery is done with full canvas filling (see the picture in the left). The sample on the right looks incomplete and more airy like a sketch. It's all thanks to lack of boundaries and partly fill background.
• The picturesque palette of tones combines two variants. But in the sketch (on the right) there are more difficult colour transitions and plenty of paints.
• The houses are similar but differently depicted. Sketch-embroidery is always a vibrant picture, clear outline and many tiny and «clearly depicted» details.
• Look at how original and unusual the waves and the spray of the sea are done on the sample on the right. Sprinkling of bright turquoise cross stitches-sprays, sharp colour transitions, torn lines, curls and strokes, scattered in a chaotic – all of these create an effect of dynamics and illusion of raging water. This is the essence of the sketching style in embroidery!
Nontrivial replacement for pictures
Sketching embroidery is a nontrivial replacement for pictures. From a distance it looks like a sketch or watercolour picture, but when viewed close up, it becomes obvious that it is embroidery. Embroidery in sketching style will look great in an office or a study. Hang such a picture onto the place most visible – it will help in visualizing of your dream trip. With this picture you can decorate not only walls, but a table or bedside drawer.
PANNA kits make any rooms cozy and comfortable where you can relax and forget all your issues!
Pictures in sketching style make an interior colorful and expressive.
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