Embroidered Collage

The focal fabric image of the turtle, found in a pack of scraps that I bought from who knows where, was the inspiration for this 6"x6" piece. It's a neat fabric too, kinda fuzzy, and the gold lines are a raised imprint.

The background is acrylic paint with just a bit of collage for texture and interest.  I went through my fabric stash looking for something to coordinate with the turtle and found the dark blue velveteen.  At first I intended to have it be the entire bottom right corner, with a wavy edge, but then thought it would look better as a divider.  So I cut out a wavy piece, carefully marked under it, and added another layer of paint to the corner.  I think pulling in another teal was very successful. 

The fun part for me was doing the pattern extrapolation.  I added the wavy lines in the bottom right based on the diamonds on the turtle's back.  I also echoed them in the way I chose to stitch down the dark blue fabric.  As a last touch I added the two stitched triangles to the turtle's head so that he'd be tied in more to the center of the piece.