Category: Thread Painting

Follow my blog with Bloglovin Journal Entry: February 21, 2014 Fossil images and hieroglyphics make great design elements to replicate with fiber using a thread painting technique. The images typically have nice clean lines, and you can fill in the “missing” parts by painting them in with thread. Traveling through the southwestern states of America you can find many opportunities to see the hieroglyphics created by the Native Americans who lived in the area, especially around the Four Corners: Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah. I’ve also found a lot of photographs, drawings and paintings of fossils in art galleries…