Something Old: Erro Girl #1

Something Old posts are when I dig through my old embroidery photos on Flickr and find projects that I finished before I started this blog. 

Here is what I call "Erro Girl #1".

I really need to retake photos of this piece also.

Erro is one of my favorite artists of all time. As a tribute, I chose 3 different girls from his paintings to embroider and this one is the first.

I started out stitching all the black outlines in stem stitch and then filled in with satin stitched.

The lips may be my favorite.

This girl was completed back in 2011. Want to compare to the original art? Click here.

You can see all three girls photos in my album on Flickr - Embroidery Tribute to Erro. (I still need to finish girl #3.)

Who is the artist Erro? Check out his website here.

WIP Wednesday - Tribute to Erro - Girl #3

Wow - it feels like I have been working (er, hardly working!) on stitching this face for a million years... It also feels like a million years since I have posted a WIP Wednesday!

Here is the progress I have made on my Erro face since the last time I posted about it back in June. I think I have made quite a bit of progress.

I am happy with it so far - the lips still need to be filled in.

Here is what it looked like when I first started stitching to give you an idea of the progress. Please excuse the very poor photo lighting!! :) It almost doesn't even look like the same eyes...

This is my third girl in my "tribute to Erro" embroidery project. Erro is my favorite artist and I chose 3 girls faces from his paintings/drawings to embroider. They are for me - I hardly ever stitch something just for me to keep. I plan on mounting them on canvas when I am finished.

I previously posted here about Girl #2 and and Girl #1 you can check out here on my Flickr page.

Hopefully it will not take me another three months to finish!

WIP Wednesday - Erro #3 update

Slow progress on my latest Erro.