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ArtistString art sunrise. 16:9 full width string art sunrise. The sunrise motif is rendered in strongly colored embroidery yarn wrapped around brass-topped nails hammered into a soft pine panel. The panel extends beyond the edges of the image. The panel was first treated with a watercolor background wash roughly outlining a sunrise over a spring meadow, with a green tint for the meadow, magenta and orange for the horizon, shiny, full-color gold for the half-sun on the horizon, and darker blue for the upper part of the sky. On this background, tiny details were outlined for trees and flowers on the spring meadow and stars in the upper part of the sky. The golden half-sun was left as a negative blank space. Leaving the sun as a reverse in a busy string craft panel automatically draws viewers’ eyes to the sun first. All other details of the motif capture viewers’ attention later. The string art technique creates intricate patterns by judiciously positioning nails and by rendering the motif in two layers: The first layer of embroidery yarn is in shades of green for the grass of the meadow, neon yellow for a field of colza, brown for still fallow fields. Orange, magenta and pink embroidery yarn forms streaks on the horizon around the blank, golden half-sun. The sky is intricately shaded in shades of blue that grow darker toward the top of the panel. Only very little of the watercolor wash on the board shows through the embroidery yarn carefully wrapped around the nails outlining the various details. The second layer on top of the first layer depicts the 3D details of flowers, bushes, and clouds whose bottom is colored orange by the sun and whose tops are lavender-gray. Large-scale, intricately detailed Arts and Crafts masterpiece project that took a community of artists a very long time to make.
Intricate string art representation of a sunrise in spring using embroidery yarn.