I bought a telephone chair last summer, that looks a lot like this except with a seat, uninspiringly upholstered.
After contemplating all the embroidered linen and upholstery-weight fabric in my stash (not an extensive collection), I decided needlepointing (or cross-stitching, or crewel-working) a seat cover for it is the way to go. I thought about koi, Chinese brush painting, art deco, art nouveau, and stained glass. After more consideration I had my decision: I want to design and stitch a Franz Marc rooster.
Roosters and abstract art meet on my dining room wall already (though in the picture below they’re still on my living room floor).
My man Marc was a member of Der Blaue Reiter artist group (whose most famous member was Wassily Kandinsky, an unfavorite) and I discovered his existence in Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne. He painted a lot of animals: Deer in the Forest; Piggies; Birds.
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Small roosters appeal to me the most. I will draw from Nankin Bantams and Japanese Bantams with a bit of this probably mixed-breed beauty stirred in.
Wish me luck. What big ambitions do you have in the artistic realm?
I want to create a book of fairy tales, whether regularly illustrated or reproduced as a comic book. I want to use classic tales from all around the world, not just the American standards of Grimm and Andersen.
Oh, that would be awesome. You could even mix it up and collage some of them.