I added the leaf to my sample page for this term of the Deep Dive into Stumpwork course, and I'm even happier with it than I was before.
You can even see the shadow behind it!
But then there was the hand. Oh, dear, the hand.
It looks like an arthritic skeleton.
I think I know what I did wrong. I got carried away with wrapping the wire to make the fingers, so they're way longer than they need to be. I think I could have started wrapping the palm earlier to make the fingers shorter.
I'm not so sure about the arthritis, though.
Anyway, my sampler has a disembodied hand attached, and I have ideas on improvement, but I think I'm moving on. Actually, today I pulled Harmony out and started working the detached elements for the first panel. That is going a little better than the hand.
It wouldn't take much to do better than the hand. That hand is pitiful.
That hand is glorious and it seems to be giving the finger with its bony digit. Don't change a thing. The leaf is perfect. Glenna
ReplyDeleteBeautiful leaf! I think the hand looks interesting. How is Harmony coming?
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