This is the first of my Postcards from Australia series – featuring our ubiquitous Laughing Kookaburra (sometimes called a “jackass, or jacky”).
I am going to fine-tune it a little before it goes on the website, but I am quite happy with the way it is shaping up.
I’ve taken a photograph of a kookaburra, played with it in Photoshop, added the background and the text, then printed it on an EQ Printables cotton sheet.
I have added the sketching embroidery on the bird and digitized the Airmail, Postcard and stamp, so that it can all be done in the hoop.
Not happy with the stamp; I think I am going to replace it with a stamp featuring gumnuts or gum leaves.
I went to a workshop with Kathryn Harmer Fox a few weeks ago. She inspired me to work on this series of Postcards. In her workshop we made postcards, using small pieces of fabric, netting and free motion embroidery.
You can see Kathryn’s work on her Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/kathryn.art/
She is a very talented lady and a great teacher.
I have taken a different approach, working with a photograph, adding texture and color to the background in Photoshop, so that you can print the image on fabric and then add the embroidery in the hoop. The embroidery on the bird does not cover the image completely, but rather sketches over it loosely.
