Philadelphia based artist Matthew Cox is best known for his x-ray work which highlights the contrasts between the two materials from the tactile to the technical.

I love the scenery of where the foot is placed. I especially love the technique of how the floor was stitched. I really love the plants and the blue sky. I’m really impressed how he managed to separate the wheat from the grass and flowers.

In an attempt to subvert traditional embroidery culture, Lithuanian artist Severija Inčirauskaitė-Kriaunevičienė applies standard floral and decorative patterns found in embroidery magazines to metallic objects like plates, spoons, lamps and even car doors.

I love how she had chosen a rusted old bucket to stitch on to because it looks really interesting and artistic. The colors she had chosen for the flower go really well with the bucket. I like how she didn’t stitch through all the holes because the shape reminds me of a leaf.

I find this really bold and creative. Never before did I think anyone can actually use the embroidery stitch technique on an metal before let alone a car. I love the different shades of blue in the stitches to reflect the tone. The white stitching around the petals make the flower look so shiny almost like it’s being reflected off the light. I adore how none of it is outlined or even has black stitch that just shows the skill of what  Severija Inčirauskaitė-Kriaunevičienė can do with color.

I love the silver and rusted brown colors on the rusty old bucket, It just goes beautifully with the embroidery sunflower. I love how the flower contains so many colors and some colors you wouldn’t even think to involve.

At first I thought these two objects were two lamps but when I look closely I know realize they are both rusted old buckets connected to old pipes and taps. I do find these two objects very inventive.

This looks delicious as it looks beautifully stitched. I love the different tones of colors and the retail in the image of the lobster, I especially love the clause. I can’t help but notice the small holes in the plate made to stitch through. They look so symmetrical and neat and tidy. I like how you can see them even through the shadows.

I just find it so inventive and creative to stitch a delicious meal on actual cutlery.

Hand-Sewn Portraits by Sheena Liam Capture Quiet Moments of Self Care

Malaysian-born artist and model Sheena Liam (previously) creates self-portraiture through dark green thread and embroidery hoops. The hand-sewn images imitate her own subtle gestures from her day-to-day life, focusing on rituals of self care.

I love in this image that she is so skilled to actually sew the hair in-between the fingers of the girl like she is actually braiding her hair.

These pictures are so charming. I mostly love how the hair in each picture isn’t sewn into the fabric and is just loose like real hair.

It seems playful because the loose thread I imagine has the same sensation as braiding real hair, like a little girl grooming a dolls hair.

I love the stripes in her clothes and how the stitching is so precise and tidy.

I like how the pictures are just images of ordinary life. It’s almost like looking into a girls perspective of how to look after yourself in the real way.

I love her hair in this image. This really gets into a young girls sense of style because it’s a modern hair-style and judging from her jacket she looks like she is going out.

The style of drawing is simple but detailed. I absolutely love the hair weather it’s loose or tied in plats I like the fact that the artist played with it.

In this image I mostly love the picture of her and her reflection in the mirror and hoe she is innocently cutting her own hair I’m guessing after a shower.

Hair is an important part in a girls life because it’s a big part of your identity, so to put that in an art piece expectantly in textile I feel it it greatly appreciated by men and women because it gives a clue in how much effort young girls put in to have a certain look and how women can really relate to all these images.

Inge Jacobsen was born in Galway, Ireland. She attended Kingston University, London, where she studied Photography. She has worked as a professional artist since graduating in 2011. Inge Jacobsen uses found commercial imagery and thread to put her own spin on classic advertising.

I really love how she uses different colours for the tones in the faces she stitches into. I especially like it when the colours are exaggerated because it makes it look more interesting.

I find it very impressive how she managed to sew perfect tones of light on the shiny part of there face because it’s bold but blends in well.

I like her technique in this picture, it’s so neat and tidy and I find it very impressive that not one stitch gone over another. It’s all in a pattern and if you look closely the stitches look like crosses.

In this picture she she does a different technique, the stitching is messy and untidy and even the loos ends of the stitches are showing.

Artist stitches portraits of family into hands

Spanish artist David Cata sews landscapes into the skin of his palm, creating art that is both intriguing and squeamish in his series, ‘Horizons’ and family portraits.

I have to admit that his technique and ideas are a stroke of genius. I especially love the landscapes of the countryside and how he managed to a line his hand to the view exactly right. I really do love the sewing technique, how the threads are all in different shades for tone and shadowing. I mostly love how he fills in with colour, he almost sews it like a net.

What puts me on edge is that he litterly sews into his hand and looking at the after affect of his hands that looks painful and extremely unnecessary to me. I don’t understand why he cant just sew on fabric then maybe wear it like a glove, Im just saying there are better and safer ways of creating a beautiful picture using hand stitch.

Apparently, “The stitches on his palms are a metaphor of the permanent symbiosis between the passage of time and oblivion. On the opening night, the visitors will be able to attend one of the artist’s controversial performances. Cata literally stitches the faces of his loved ones on the palm of his hands”.

The task was to draw seed heads in different angles in mixed medias and describe them

On the A1 sheet of paper I drew different seed heads.

This seed head was dry, crisp and hollow. With this seed head I drew it in pencil first and then painted it in acrylic.

The UCAS education fair is in Manchester

The fair is based in a large room with hundreds of stands. I decided to be open minded and here out what anyone wanted to offer.

There were many offers and so many people. I got free merchandise where ever I visited.

I visited a stand that presented these felt-tip pens, used for professional colouring in comic books. To be fair they were really good pens, they didn’t crease, the colours were very natural and very effective.

After the first few minutes of entering the room, it was quite overwhelming because there was so much stuff, so many attractions that after a while it became sickening.