Felting
Yesterday I attended a felting workshop with the art group. I had no idea what to expect but it always good to have a go at learning something new.
We started with making a piece where we had to make our own base layer as well as creating a pattern. Anyone experienced with felting will know this took quite some physical effort to get all the layers to bind together. For the design went into rockpool imaginary mode with blues and oranges and came up with this.
I do like this one and am wondering if some embellishment of shells could work.
Next we were asked to do a landscape scene but this time onto a piece of ready made felt. Not quite as much of a physical effort as we only needed to get the top layers to bind together. I imagined the fells and the dramatic skies we have near home. A piece of multi coloured green wool did allot of the foreground work for me.
This is my favourite from the day. I just need to persuade the flowers in the foreground to stay in place - a few stiches or a little fabric glue should sort that out.
Next we created a loose piece that was supposed to resemble tree bark. The idea being to cut this up for piece no 4 - trees. I got carried away with some glittery brown wool and greens and purple and ended up with a quite dark piece of fabric. Here’s what’s left after I chopped my bits off for piece 4.
I do think that is a quite lovely abstract.
The final piece is supposed to be woodland. There was a bit of an incident on this as I got my net rub and my piece of bubble wrap the wrong way round so ended up pulling some fibres where they shouldn’t go ( you’d think by the 4th attempt I’d be getting things right! ).
Anyway this is what came out.
Rather than a woodland - maybe the gate to hell? I don’t think the tutor Caren Threfall ( who was excellent ) need to have any concerns that I may be going into competition with her. However an enjoyable day and another experience.