Embroidery and A Sunflower Box

I started a Sunflower Prairie Landscape Box, and here is an update on my Dance Macabre embroidery, it's a slow dance.

Embroidery

Creeping, creeping along.

Oops, I'm sorry. I posted the same pictures on Friday. Yikes. Well, if you missed it on Friday, here it is again. I've got the flu, so I'm a bit disorganized just now.

Danse Macabre Embroidery

Here is a picture of my embroidery in progress, which I've since finished into a cushion. It's available from my etsy store My Good Babushka!

Danse Macabre Embroidery

Once again, I took these photos after dark so excuse the discoloration. Two thrids of our bony trio is now in place. I think the compostion is very nice and balanced. I am getting anxious as to what will happen when I wash the embroidery. I think if the colors bleed, though, it might not be a bad thing, as the background is very plain. It might make the texture a little more interesting.

Danse Macabre Embroidery

I bet you thought I forgot about my embroidery! Well, I didn't. Here it is about 1/3 of the way complete.

Lately, in my head, I've been thinking about the fine film "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover". I haven't seen it in many years, but I wouldn't mind giving it a gander. It's so opulent, quite the right sort of film for a painter. I think about the cook's philosophical observation. "Eating black food is like consuming death. It is like saying 'death, I am eating you.'"
I'm not sure why that tickles me so.
I sort of imagine a dinner party with strange guests, perhaps with beaklike faces, and the table is obscured with heaps of glistening black currants and berries on silver plates, olives, black caviar and dark, dark wine. Maybe I'll paint it someday.

Danse Macabre Embroidery 1

Not a very spectacular start, but it is a start!