Eyes

This is a project I have been working on for a couple of months.

 

I’m calling it “Look daddy” because of the theme I want this picture to convey. The theme of the picture is childhood and the way a young child sees life.

 

I choose to use eyes because I always see people at school or just doodling on a page, drawing them so I thought I would do a twist on the usual pencil or pen drawn eyes, so I hand embroidered the eyes with as much detail as possible.

Also I did eyes because I once read some where that “eyes are the windows of your soul” however cheesy that sounds it is true. I mean, when ever I am looking at a portrait of someone I always look at the eyes because some how your eyes always show your emotions. And so I decided that I would put that “to the test” and look into it in detail. And that was one of my goals in this picture.

 

Again I have done some more machine embroidered butterflies on dissolvable fabric. I’m beginning to think that butterflies are kinda my thing. ;)

I have chosen these particular species of butterflies because these species live on the South Downs were I am growing up. By having these butterflies it adds to the story behind the picture. (I would explain why it adds to the story behind the picture but I think that’s up to you, after all I don’t want to give away everything!)

 

What I like about this picture is that it’s different to the usual art you see because everything nowadays it themed around violence and stuff like “What has the world come to!!!” but my art piece is positive, it’s themed on how and child sees nature, the world and their obvious joy.

 

What was challenging about this piece was surprisingly the machine embroidery on dissolvable fabric. I usually use machine embroidery alot and I was expecting the hand embroidery to be difficult and boring but I got into a role of things and really enjoyed it!

Also what was difficult was finding time to do it because if I am not at school I am doing homework so I had to squeeze in time to do the embroidery.

 

When I framed the eyes, I used a box frame and made some butterflies to sit on the mount rather than at the same level as the eyes. I also fixed one of them outside the glass to give it even more depth.

 

Lastly I would like to say thank you to my family for helping me with a lot of the artistic decisions I had to make, especially my dad and mum!