Saludos querida comunidad, el día de hoy comparto con ustedes mi participación en el Splinterlands Art Contest Week 259 ,para el cual hice un colgante de pared hecho en técnica macramé, con el personaje de la carta Mischievous Mermaid, la cual es una maga con un gran poder, elegí este personaje por que quería hacer un personaje femenino con gran belleza pero a la vez con una expresión de ataque, en esta pose aparece como si estuviera lanzando un hechizo de ataque, así que esta era la indicada para mi.
Greetings dear community, today I share with you my participation in the Splinterlands Art Contest #259, for which I made a wall hanging made in the macramé technique, with the character from the card Mischievous Mermaid, which is a magician with a great power, I chose this character because I wanted to make a female character with great beauty but at the same time with an attacking expression, in this pose she appears as if she were casting an attacking spell, so this was the one for me.
Proceso / Process
The first step I did was cut out the image to make a rectangle of the dimensions I wanted to make the wall hanging, this way I could make the pattern, determining the colors to use for the knots in each area of the figure. I chose to make the hair with a darker tone than the original, using medium purple for the shadow, light purple for the medium tone and old pink for the highlights, for the mermaid tail I used dark purple and medium purple. For the skin I used two shades of green, for the oyster that adorns the hair and the corset I used burgundy thread for the shadow, red for the middle tone and pink for the highlights as well as two shades of gray for the eyes and the inside of I used two shades of blue and white for the mouth, for the outline of the figure I used black thread and for the background I used blue thread. The total is 16 different colors of thread for that project.
To start with the blue yarn I cut 16 strands of 60 cm and left one strand attached to the ball. On a stick half the length of each strand I made a lark knot to attach to the stick, leaving the strand attached to the ball on the left, this way there are 33 guide threads left and the thread attached to the ball will be used for knotting. I attached the stick to the board with two clothespins.
In the first row I made 6 knots with blue, I added the black thread behind to make the first 10 knots that correspond to the outline of the top of the head, taking these knots in the following rows as a guide for location, I used pink thread in the top of each wave of hair, the light purple color in the center while the medium purple thread I used for the areas close to the outline.
I continued adding the colors corresponding to the details of the hair such as the oyster and the face with two shades of green. I didn't use the blue background color again until row 53. That is, just below the mermaid's armpit and at the end of the hair on the left side of the image.
Once I finished the corset part by making very frequent color changes in the knots of the rows, it was a little easier to make the mermaid tail, because the work has fewer colors at a time in that area, however, the great number of rows meant that it took me about 4 days to do this project.
I finished the knots on row 96 😁 and I couldn't believe how beautiful the figure looked, I divided the threads into 4 groups and made a slip knot with red thread in each one. Then, with the blue thread, I cut 6 strands of 20 cm and made a braid that I tied on each side of the stick to make the wall hanging.
Resultado / Result
I am more and more excited about this technique every day, especially because the characters in Splinterlands are so varied and colorful that they motivate a lot to do this type of work. I hope you like this one.
Imágenes tomadas con dispositivo Samsung A54. Portada editada en Inshot
Pictures taken with Samsung A54 device. Cover edited in Inshot
Espero les haya gustado. Les invito a leer mis próximas publicaciones y siempre estaré dispuesta a responder sus preguntas y comentarios, también pueden seguirme y contactarme en cualquiera de mis redes sociales. ¡Muchas gracias!
I hope you liked it. I invite you to read my next publications and I will always be willing to answer your questions and comments, you can also follow me and contact me on any of my social networks. Thank you!
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