funny face
An interesting excercise. On saturday I was teaching an online class for the Ashmolean, the dragon queen in opus anglicanum that I posted here late last year. Becasue I’ve already done this face twice, once as a video to send out for class and once for the installation at Caernarfon castle, I decided that to make the geometry more visible on the zoom feed (because no matter what camera you use as a feed the images on zoom always seem a bit fuzzy to me, they aren’t exactly HDTV ) Hence I worked the constituent parts of her face in separate colours.
She looks somewhat modernist, almost picasso-ish, and amuses me greatly – although I’m glad she is simply a throwaway demo project as I can see some rather imperfect stitchingon her nose now I have a decent photo. In my defence the camera tends to impede my view when I have it hovering over the embroidery like this!
opusanglicanum 
I think this is a brilliant demo piece. It almost looks like something for a medical textbook, and blends the “how” and “why” the faces were/are stitched this way really clear.
it’s really the same thing I did with the expanded face in the opus book, but on a smaller scale
This is a wonderful way to make the different sections clear, not just the shape, but the reasons.
zoom is so low res I don’t think flesh colour works well – and it was the 3rd time i’ve stitched this particular face so it was more interesting for me too
Woah! make up classes were certainly different way back when!
it’s funny you should say that – the whole time I wasstitching her I was thinking of the roman ladies in the asterix books discussing how sickly thier makeup looks