Brutkey

Petra van Cronenburg
@NatureMC@mastodon.online

#ArtAdventCalendar In my childhood, I dreamed of having a cute, small and real dragon in our garden. I imagined dragons to be green (and did I say cute?). For my first bigger embroidery I tried to paint with the needle. Even adults could use dragon power!

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An embroidered green dragon with reddish brown bat-like wings, spitting fire. Embroidered on white coton flanell, in a vintage oval brass frame.

Showing the first steps with a cartoon.like sketch of the friendly dragon and the first stitches of the outlines. A needle where I start with filling them in green.

A later state of the embroidery in a round embroidery hoop. The outlines are stitched with simple running stitch in dark red and yellow. As I come from drawing, I fill the dragon like I would colour a sketch on paper. I started with a bright yellow green. To give the dragon skin some texture, I use the needle to paint spots in different directions with this green and then add other shades of green next to them.