I know I have shown this picture of Ebey's prairie, located on Whidbey Island in the State of Washington, before but I am surprised by how many times I have come back to it for inspiration. Mostly I have greatly simplified the image as in this 8 x 8 inch piece titled Prairie III.
Most recently, I decided to really delve into more of the details of the photo. I knew perspective would be critical so the angles of the field lines would be crucial. I might tweak these a bit if I did it over again but this newest work seems to have captured the feeling of spaciousness that I get from looking at the original photo. This is now my fourth piece that has come from just this one picture, Prairie IV.
Here is a detail image. I have found that I really love stitching the foreground grasses with their grace and illusion of movement from the breeze. One lucky break was the blue sky fabric. I had only one small piece left of this and it had lighter areas that ran vertical to way I needed to lay the piece. Normally I would have wanted the light are to run horizontally but somehow this vertical "stripe" matched up perfectly with the open view to the distant ocean. I had not enough fabric to move it right or left and still fit into my 12 x 12 inch space. Sometimes there is inspiration and sometimes there is sheer luck!
