Embellishment

[Corvus]

Recently, I've been writing a series of posts (http://corvustristis.livejournal.com/tag/embellishment) in ye olde blog that give quick reference overviews, with lots of links to resources and tutorials, of various methods of embellishing your creations (thusfar, your wearable creations). It's been a lot of fun and has driven me to photograph a bunch of projects I thought you all might apperciate.

Appliqued wings on a thrifted coat:

http://pics.livejournal.com/corvustristis/pic/003brdxh/s320x240

Hand-painted shirt (the test shirt):

http://pics.livejournal.com/corvustristis/pic/003c2hgd/s320x240

Another hand-painted shirt, in progress:

http://pics.livejournal.com/corvustristis/pic/003c03b9/s320x240

Embroidery with Sublime Stitching (http://www.sublimestitching.com) pattern:

http://pics.livejournal.com/corvustristis/pic/003a637x/s320x240

http://pics.livejournal.com/corvustristis/pic/003a7gp9/s320x240

Embroidery with my own pattern:

http://pics.livejournal.com/corvustristis/pic/003c1f5r/s320x240

You can find the line art/pattern for the owl back at my blog, alongside the whole series of posts (as it stands thusfar) which I hope will give some good ideas. Now I'm trying to come up with more things to try and post about along the embellishment lines. Suggestions?

[JumpyJavaJawa]

I love owls! Cool stuff:)

[momma2many]

wow those are great. I love the painted stuff and I wish I could paint!

[BOO_its_brittany]

Wow.
So much talent.
That owl is amazing!
<3!

[agreenfire]

The owl is my favorite. I love the colors.

[crafty_tex_mexie]

Oh i've been itching to do some embroiery!! what great inspiration!

[Corvus]

Thanks! Just a reminder, if you'd like to embroider the owl yourself, the line art is available all free-like on my blog. I'm about to post some more line art for such a purpose (yay free embroidery patterns, right?) and I've also got a post on there that will tell or link you to embroidery tutorials and various methods of transferring line art to fabric.

As far as painting goes, mama2many, the supplies I used on those shirts were so cheap I don't think it matters, monitarily at least, if you have a little learning to do.

[i_rok_93]

Those are all soooo awesome! I love the embroidery!

[makaalohilohi]

very nice! i want to embroider a corvid on something now :)

[artmule]

WOW your embroidery is astonishing. I am in love with the owl.

[Corvus]

CORVIDS! Would you believe that in all my brainstorming for patterns to draw up and release to the wilds of the internet, when I go by Corvus all over, when my blog, e-mail, flickr account, etsy store, ebay account and who knows what else are all named after specific corvid species, I did not once think of drawing up a sheet of corvid patterns?

Ooo. I'll have to do that one right after I do one for my cephalopod obsession.

Thanks artmule! I wanted the owl to be rather simple on that shirt, comparably, but I think I'll do it again on another shirt with a lot more of the bird filled in via various feather-esque stitch patterns. I think it'd be really impressive.

[makaalohilohi]

cephalopods are pretty dang awesome. you could get into microinvertebrates too, like copepods, daphnia, and chlamydomonas!

[Corvus]

Ooo! When I'm not crafting I'm actually a Microbiologist, so now you're speaking my language! I was actually pondering microbe embroidery earlier- most of what I do is infectious disease, though, and I wasn't sure how kosher it'd be to embroider Marburg on my jacket, particularly coming from Colorado.

[plumsong]

the owl is fantastic! it's great as your own pattern!
i'm impressed even more because i'm sorta iffy at embroidering.