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I usually don`t like embroidered or appliques versions of classic paintings , but i can appreciate the attraction that KLIMT has for fiber people to recreate it in another technique. Close looking at his paintings give one the feeling as if he actualy glued pieces of cloth to his canvasses . I have seen woven , appliqued , crochted and embroidered versions of his paintings , some time a whole painting, and some times `details`. Have you though of adding beads instead of some of the shiny parts ? , i have seen a lady who used gold cloth and payyettes, to a her Klimt version. mirjam

Mirjam wrote I usually don`t like embroidered or appliques versions of classic paintings , but i can appreciate the attraction that KLIMT has for fiber people to recreate it in another technique. Close looking at his paintings give one the feeling as if he actualy glued pieces of cloth to his canvasses . I have seen woven , appliqued , crochted and embroidered versions of his paintings , some time a whole painting, and some times `details`. Have you though of adding beads instead of some of the shiny parts ? , i have seen a lady who used gold cloth and payyettes, to a her Klimt version. mirjam

One artist whose work I have seen and liked translated into fibre is Matisse. His figure silhouettes were knitted into a sweater, and looked good. Brenda Keyes has a small cross stitched (I think) piece of a similar figure, and it translates well. Dawne

Oh Dawne that is very interesting that you mention Matisse , i know a lady who appliqued quite some `parts` and details from Matisse`s works . [ ithink she had a Matisse period] . Many years ago i was invited by a painter [ quite known at her time] , to see `Her Mona Lisa `, Being a teenager at the time i didn`t know much about art, but when i came into her living room and she showed me her embroidered version of the Mona Lisa , i was horrified and told her , it was not THE MONA LISA , and asked her if this was legal? , she assured me it was OK , and that since she could not afford the REAL Thing , it was a good thing. In our street we had another lady with an Artistic Fame. She used to by painted canvasses and puzzeles of famous classic art , and she Framed both [ unembroidered] canvasses and puzzeles in Golden Frames , and hung them everywhere on her flat`s walls ... It was a very curious sight . mirjam

Why, Gillian! What a lovely thing to say! I think of myself as an educated hippie and it's the nicest compliment anyone could pay me! Thank you! ;-D

DD is thirteen and DS will be thirty-two in June. We all get on like a house on fire and the big thing about our house is that everybody laughs in it. Our family motto is 'Nothing is worth worrying about'.

DD and I had a lovely morning trying to throw grapes in each other's mouths. I know: weird! But it's the only way I can get her to eat fruit. I bet her she couldn't get ten grapes in my mouth and that I could get twenty in hers. Of course, she winds up eating about a bunch of grapes and I get little wet spots all over my face. LOL!

Then we went over to the Ugly Sister's and had a nice chicken salad lunch. Mum came and was in a great good humour because she'd managed to vacuum her entire house before eleven o'clock. She's eighty-seven.

To my horror, the Ugly Sister had been asked to puppysit three small puppies from the petshop in which her son's girlfriend works. Guess what? The puppies won't be going back to the petshop! Ugly and her two daughters have succumbed and bought them all!!! The puppies are Choodles (Japanese Chin X Poodle) and insidiously cute. The whole afternoon, people kept calling out 'Crap alert! Mop and bucket to the loungeroom!' because one or the other of them kept being incontinent all over the place (the puppies, that is, not the people). Fortunately, Ugly has no carpet, but polished floorboards.

By the end of the evening, everyone was geed up enough from eating too much chocolate to cause much merriment and silliness. My DNephew, who is utterly gorgeous and built like the proverbial brick $#!+ house, began doing chin-ups from the beams of Ugly's ODLA (OutDoor Living Area). He began placing bets with the other men in the party and it became a wholesale chin-up competition. Finally, Ugly reckoned she could do a few and the women joined in. Except for me, whose body mass would be totally beyond lifting by anyone, let alone myself! By the time Mum got tired and asked to be taken home, my entire family was dangling from Ugly's rafters!We're talking eighteen people here: it was a scary sight!

Now I am home and feeling quite squeamish from just one too many creme eggs. I *knew* I should've eschewed that last one, but - well - down it went! DD is making toast for herself and her brother and DH is snoring in the loungeroom. And Easter is over, just like that.

Think of me tomorrow, won't you? My DBIL is coming to help DH mend the leaking window on our north-facing wall. DH reckons he's going to get up on the roof to inspect it (and my DH is giant-economy sized, if you get my drift). I've told him I don't want to have to measure his bum for a picture-frame. See, I have this vision of DH's delectable bottom coming crashing through the ceiling and the only workable solution will be to frame it artistically. Brrrr! It's not a pretty thought!!!

I thought of 'The Kiss', Lucille. It sure would come up beautifully in XS if carefully charted. Be a huge chart, though.

Does everyone remember Robert Tusler from about ten or twelve years ago? He charted Joan Miro's 'Apple' and worked it in NP for a cushion. It came up quite wonderfully well and he managed to capture all the extraneous colours so that the piece looked like the original and not like a poorly-cleaned-up facsimile. I believe he did it with graph paper and coloured pencils... I know it was a long time before decent software was freely available.

I once tried to imagine all kinds of classic art translated into embroidery , knitiing and or weaving , not many will really look IT ,,,, mirjam

When I first started getting into needlework seriously, I did two of his pictures in surface work. If you'd like to see them, they are here:

Elizabeth

How very cool, Linda! Did you chart those yourself? How did you decide what stitches to use where?

Elizabeth

I once tried to imagine all kinds of classic art translated into embroidery , knitiing and or weaving , not many will really look IT ,,,,

The Matisse stuff I mentioned worked well because it was based on very simple but sophisticated shapes, like his paper cuts, and use strong colour. Something that depends on finely detailed brushwork and layers of glazing will clearly not work as well. Dawne

Have you lately looked at THE FLOWER BOOK by Edward Burne-Jones , there are some painting i could imagine being made from Tulle [layers of different hues. French knots , elongated flat stitiches ,beads etc,,, mirjam

Pet Peeve #304 -- abrupt color changes and jagged, stair stepped edges seen in so many xs and needle point translations, especially the mass market kits.

Thank you (blush).

I did those way back, before I knew you guys and really before I knew much about stitching, other than I liked it. I just traced the picture onto cotton, had a color copy as a reference and started stiching. Took it to WM and picked out DMC. They are done mostly in satin/long-short stitch with some french knots and chain stitch, stem and couching. Actually, looking back on them, I'm still proud of them. They really came out well and certainly inspired me to keep going.

Linda

...and the problem with that is?....

Then you could start your "year 148" project!

Sue

Lucille wrote: > I have The Kiss (not the original ;*))) on my living room wall. I just got

One of the BritStitch mags had "The Kiss" charted a few years ago. Wonderfully dense and rich, with lots of metallics.

Sue

Attributions, Anne! Dawne didn't say the above. You have only to look at the series of commas to know who did say it.

Elizabeth

QUIT IT!

Elizabeth (Sable'd many time over, but at least I'm stitching again)