Ok so things have moved on. Here is the finished surface. It took four sessions to build up the complexity. I used various tools and different light sources. The more I worked on it, the more it looked like metal. Halfway through I worried I would never pull it off, as they say, because it began to become muddy. That’s when I realised I was working light to dark, dark to light, dull to shine, then shine to dull, then finally back to shine, if that makes any sense. I like the way the tissue paper texture no longer looks like paper but the undulations, crevices and fissures of a prehistoric intergalactic explosion, as in how all gold was originally formed.
Now a funny thing happened to me twice, if you eva….
I showed a guy a photo of the Celtic dog while we were having dinner with our families in the country and he didn’t believe it was embroidery??
Then two weeks later I go to the coast with my friend and show her the picture and she too cannot understand or believe it’s embroidery, at which point I started heartily laughing.
QED ppl !
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