Meredith Woolnough textile artist embroidery art design Australian coral sculpture resin lace

I’m so proud of myself. I experimented with week two’s TAST stitch – the buttonhole stitch earlier this week. In fact, the only reason I didn’t post earlier was because my…

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Alison Whateley -Textile & mixed media artist on Instagram: "One ammonite all finished. It's been a challenge, but I'm really pleased with how it's turned out. To reference a quote by Mary Lou Cook, 'Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun.' . . . . #mixedmediatextiles #finearttextiles #stitchedart #contemporaryart #art #artofinstagram #artistoninstagram #ammoniteart #ammonites #coastalinspiredart #devonartist…

I have always had a deep fascination with Ammonites. This fascinating group of extinct marine invertebrates have a beautiful spiralled shaped shell that resembles the curved spiral of a rams horn. Most fossil collectors would have a specimen or two of one of these horn shaped stones, I know I do.

I hope to capture the power, beauty and fragility of nature in knotted embroidery threads. The work explores the sculptural possibilities of a unique embroidery technique that utilizes a domestic sewing machine and a base fabric that dissolves in water. By repeatedly stitching threads into dense structures I create intricate and complex openwork compositions that mimic natural forms and structures.

Are you attempting the simplest way to create an ammonite drawing? In this post, I will describe step by the step the easiest approach to apply detail and add texture to your illustration. An ammonite, maybe some of us already know about it, a marine mollusk animal from the subclass Ammonoidea. According to the British