Travelling sketchbook - dragonfly wings

The next sketchbook I received was from E. Here is a tiny section of her second piece, together with a list of what it brought to my mind, after a few days of letting it sit.

I loved the idea of iridescent sections of dragonfly wings, the sun glinting off them.

So in my back book, I had a little go. I found some textured wallpaper and some origami paper and dyed them with Procion MX dyes. I tried a bit of stitching with silk thread to suggest the tiny sections on one, but while I liked the effect, the silk just got too tangled up, so I canned that and used three strands of regular embroidery thread - much better. I smeared the second with glitter, which looked lovely, but gets lost in the photograph.

This is what I put into the sketchbook that I passed on. I rubbed the dragonfly 'bodies' with Inktense sticks, just to give a bit of texture. Think I preferred the composition of the top one, somehow. Anyway, fun!