My photos are taken with the view of using the colors, inspiration, texture or composition for textile art.

Take this photo for instance.

The woman's stance speaks to me in a way that words don't.

When I take a photo like this. I know exactly what I'm going to do with it but first I need to prepare the photo to make it easier to impliment the image.

I changed the photo into a line drawing.

Now I put it into color.

enlarged it looks like this.

Now this is a drawing program, but I use it for my thread painting designs and also my Woven watercolors images.

There are a lot of ways I can use this technique.

Take a look at this web page, it will give you an idea of what can be achieved.