The beginning of this style of canvas always looks completely disjointed and messy. It is.
We're only applying colour, not detail.
After I placed a quantity of fabric chips of the same fabrics as the base ( to soften the edges), I cut and applied about a half metre total of 5 colours of nylon lightly shaped to ovals. Again this softens the definition of the base fabric.
Next, using black sewing thread I cut and placed as randomly as possible 2 to 3 inch pieces to suggest the myriad of small branches in the crown.
Down to the middle, 4 different materials were finally cut and pointedly "scattered" over the transition point of the brown fabric. This area is the under story and is darker.
We're only applying colour, not detail.
After I placed a quantity of fabric chips of the same fabrics as the base ( to soften the edges), I cut and applied about a half metre total of 5 colours of nylon lightly shaped to ovals. Again this softens the definition of the base fabric.
Next, using black sewing thread I cut and placed as randomly as possible 2 to 3 inch pieces to suggest the myriad of small branches in the crown.
Down to the middle, 4 different materials were finally cut and pointedly "scattered" over the transition point of the brown fabric. This area is the under story and is darker.
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