Embroidered Poe Portrait in Progress

I've been working on this embroidered portrait of Edgar Allan Poe on and off for a couple years now. There is probably 15 hours if work in it so far. Tiny running stitches!




My favorite Poe quote:

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man grimly bent on making his dreams come true.

Paper Mache Beetle

 

I made this as a piece of wall art for my new apartment!  It's done with a cardboard and newspaper base and covered in paper mache.  I painted it with acrylic paints.  It's pretty big, see the light switch in lower left hand corner for scale!