Recycling Dad’s Design

I finished and framed my recycle piece. I used one of my dad’s design vellums. I ended up using brush markers by Tombow for the painting.  https://www.tombowusa.com/. I used the set with 10 grayscale markers. I blended with a water color brush. The trouble with drafting vellums is the paint just sits on the surface. It’s not like working with paper. I want to try them out on paper sometime. 

So I painted the design, machine stitched with a King Tut thread, and then hand stitched with a variegated embroidery floss. The final size is 10 in by 10 in. I kept the stitching simple to really show his design. Plus the markers were fairly transparent for his design to show through.

It won’t win a prize and I’m not even sure my dad would approve of what I did with his design! But at least it’s done! I think I will use this technique for an art piece of my daughter's house so I will use what I learned here. So how many times did I actually make this art piece? I think it was 4 times (trial piece, one stitched and failed painting, one painted not happy with, the final version). 

So any thoughts? I need to finalize a title. So far all I have is “Recycling Dad’s Design.” I tried coming up with an expression he used or any of the bad jokes he made up. These are things like….it must be your lucky day, the golden years…, I joined the circus, it’s only money. My husband suggested “Dad built Pittsburgh” because he designed thousands of houses in that city. 

I won’t have too long to contemplate the title. Entries are due by the 24th.

Thanks for reading.

Chris