Beginning the Work of Needlepoint Tapestry

Video Transcript

"My name is Francie DeMun. I am speaking on behalf of Expert Village. I am a tapestry artist. What happens first with this bright blank canvas is and this is sort of a phenomenal I don’t have a plan. I never have a plan. I do not know what is going to happen and friends of mine that are more traditional artists are kind in all what happens because I don’t draw it, I don’t think oh, I am going to make a dragon, I just get inspired by these colors and start doing something. Now in each one you will see, there is a primary focus which the names come from Pegasus’s, the Phoenix. That primary focus is the thing that happens first when I am creating then there is a flow that happens. So you can see I am randomly there is no plan to this. I’m not in a trance right now though. Oh, I just basically, it’s intuitive, it’s all intuitive. I have no rules for myself and no expectations. So also I go different directions. I’ve got some of these stitches going vertically and some going horizontally and that makes texture. I will show when I am pointing to some of these how just changing the direction of the stitch. I made a Southwest Dragon; it was the dragon and the Phoenix. Actually in Fox in Early Spring, it was the flowers. It the flowers in that one are just so alive and lush and the fox kind of slid in afterwards but I get into a trance too. I do this non-stop for 6 or 8 hours when I am that first period and often stand back at the end of 3 or 4 days and as am surprised as anybody else what has happened there. "