I decided that thread painting wasn't going to work for me. So I decided to take all of the shading/highlights of applique off and do hand embroidery for that instead. Now after looking at it I am not sure about the lightness of the color, I am thinking a shade darker for the thread. What do you think? Any suggestions would be great.
this is what it looked like with the appliqued highlight
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this is a close up of the head with the hand embroidery
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full body of the one palomino stallion
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this will be the focal point of the stallion quilt
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