The Starry Night

Emily came abode final calendar week for a cinema shoot. And piece she was hither she saw her sis Ellie working on an fine art projection inspired past times Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night. We had the half dozen human foot Art Quilter frame loaded upwards amongst to a greater extent than or less dark stuff together with fleece all gear upwards for a cinema shoot. So Emily decided to thread pigment Van Gogh's Starry Night. I'll permit her say yous herself:

Emily's Van Gogh on the half dozen ft Art Quilter frame

"Quilting is then fun! Last week, I was at abode for my academy Reading Week. One of my picayune sisters, Ellie, was doing an fine art projection on Van Gogh's Starry Night piece.

She'd done a beautiful pen rendering of it on paper, together with on seeing it I was struck past times the notion that I could quite easily produce the same matter on the Art Quilter!

The long, repetitive movements that Ellie created amongst the pen strokes could live also created amongst my sewing machine needle together with thread equally I guided it on the frame!"

Ellie's Starry Night color sketch for her patterns inwards nature schoolhouse project

"So, piece I was practising to a greater extent than or less designs for our Christmas cinema shoot, I decided to choose a larn at Van Gogh!

First of all, I flora a good, high resolution icon on the network of Starry Night, together with lay my laptop past times the Art Quilter, then I could meet what I was 'painting'.

 I precisely used the Art Quilter similar an easel together with drew myself a rectangle to 'paint' in, which helped me give-up the ghost on proportions correct. Then...I precisely went for it!"

"There were a lot of thread changes, together with to a greater extent than or less practising exterior of the box to meet if the colours I wanted to purpose would genuinely work - they sometimes didn't! - together with I kept my pollex on the Stop/Start push on the Nifty Grips , which helped amongst precision. I mixed a lot of threads together, for event the lite blueish variegated Rainbows together with the royal King Tut, to brand the background, which precisely meant that I got to a greater extent than color for my thread! I also added the dark thread inwards last, equally it was easier to larn over together with encompass upwards the lighter colours than it would choose been to produce it the other means around." 

Van Gogh's Starry Night  interpreted inwards thread past times Emily Milne

I love how Emily genuinely captured the effort inwards the master copy painting. Isn't it amazing what yous tin produce amongst the right tools together with to a greater extent than or less slap-up thread.

Two views of the master copy together with a fleck of background on the piece.

Starry Night is Vincent van Gogh's virtually famous painting. "This forenoon I saw the province from my window a long fourth dimension earlier sunrise, amongst nil but the forenoon star, which looked really big," van Gogh wrote to his blood brother Theo. A locomote rooted inwards imagination together with memory, Starry Night's sweeping brush strokes bring effort equally a open fire similar cyprus tree unites the churning heaven to the tranquillity hamlet below.

Painted past times Vincent van Gogh inwards June 1889, currently inwards New York's Museum of Modern Art.