Author Archives: Martin Tschofen

Hand-tooled leather pouches

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@magmadar1753 of @blackhenstudio introduced me to two new materials I hadn’t tried working with before: leather and metal. With Mike’s expert guidance, I got the chance to make two leather needle pouches (dyed with indigo and black walnut) and a metal plant hook! View on Instagram

Row houses in St. John’s, NL

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View on Instagram In 2021, I began embroidering one 4-inch hoop a month. This hoop is from October. After spending the previous months trying to replicate either photos or other painters’ work, I decided it was time to base an embroidery off of one of my own doodles. I wanted to make something a bit …

September: Otto Marseus van Schrieck’s ‘A “sotto bosco”

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‘…with mushrooms, butterflies, a dragonfly, a snake and a lizard’ Continuing in the painting theme, this time mostly because I wasn’t sure what else to do. I opted for a darker theme for a change of pace but discovered that embroidery thread doesn’t exist in a whole lot of dark shades. It was very difficult …

January: La Gomera

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View on Instagram In 2021, I began embroidering one 4-inch hoop a month. This is the first installment, from January. I was trying to replicate a photo of sand dunes with a very limited number of colours and was entirely unsure on how to create direction and depth.