Embroidery Bulidings

So for my artwork I’ve been wandering around the city of Bath taking a look at all the different types of buildings there are here. Taking photos, trying out different drawing and painting techniques but I’ve still always had embroidery in the back of my mind. I feel that using fabrics to construct an image is a technique that I’m much stronger at, compared to detailed drawings or paintings. So I've decided to try out more textile techniques in my art work.
So this was originally a picturesque house on the outskirts of Bath and I thought I’d play around with the colours for one thing since most Bath buildings are made out of the Cotswold stone I thought I’d like to inject some colour and I find the piece more interesting than if I’d tried to use specific colours and tried to make this patchwork like piece exact to the house.
After spending the time hand stitching this (because I prefer the effect of the thicker embroidery thread to create a bold line) I then flip it over and find that I like the back of the piece almost as much as the front. It’s almost like a cityscape and so I think that I’m going to experiment some more with just sewing an outline of a building, using contrasting fabrics and thread.
So that should keep me going for the next week or so, I would also like to start looking into fashion illustration because fashion drawings are what I’ve been doing in textiles and I would like to overlap my work in that way. So I plan on finding a way to link the buildings I’ve been looking at and my embroidery to hopefully have a fashion outcome. But I realise that a final outcome is still way off yet I’d rather do some more samples for now and just experiment some more. So that’s my plan for now!