Learn to paint with wool with this detailed needle felted picture tutorial suitable for beginners onward and featuring my favourite Herdwick sheep.
Hello there readers! I get lots of compliments about my wet-felted background pieces and often get asked how they are made. So here’s a blog devoted to giving you an insight into the wet felting process and the tools that I use. To begin with, here are all my tools:1. Liquid soap2. Water spray bottle3. Hand washboard4. Bamboo mat5. Roller6. Net7. Bar of soap8. Wool yarns9. Coloured wool roving10 White wool roving11. White vinegar spray I begin by throwing an old towel over my work desk. This wil
When I tell people that I needle felt, more often than not I have to explain what that is. At shows, a lot of folks walk into my booth and assume that I'm using boiled wool or I have knitted then felted (by way of washing and drying) my products. I always keep some unfinished products and supplies on hand so that I can demonstrate the process: "See, I gather the wool into the general shape, then I poke it with these special, barbed needles, and the fibers tangle together. The more I poke, the more I can shape and sculpt the wool..." Once they see how things are made, then it seems as though they have a better appreciation of the total work and time that goes into each piece. Needle felted pieces are not something that can be mass produced--at least very well. I'm just a one gal show over here (plus the work my husband puts in). As much as I wish I could make more things, my time is finite, which means my productivity is finite too. Sometimes I'm envious of graphic designers and artists who can make prints--they can produce so much product. They can send their work to shops across the states--out of the states even. I struggle to renew local consignment orders. Thank goodness the shop owners are patient. But I digress. Below is the step-by-step process with short descriptions of how I made the wool painting from week 3 of 52 Weeks of Felt Paintings. Enjoy! 1. Blank needle felted canvas on my felting foam with my 6-needle tool. 2. The four shades of blue I used for the sky. 3. The entire background was covered in one blue. 4. Other blues laid out on the canvas to determine how I wanted the gradient. 5. All the blues are felted down. 6. Playing with composition with shades of pink and purple for the balloons. 7. Started with the the balloons in the back.... 8. And worked my way toward the front of the bunch. 9. All balloons are felted in place. 10. Placing lighter colored felt for balloon highlights. 11. Balloon highlights are felted in. 12. I also added some white into the highlights. Determining string placement. 13. "Stretching" the wool into long pieces for the strings. 14. All the strings are in place. 15. Adding flesh colored wool for the hand and arm holding the balloons. 16. Adding small balloon details. 17. Small detail work on the hand. 18. The edges of the painting are still pretty messy... 19. ...so I cleaned them up with my felting needles. 20. Edges smoothed. (Side shot to show dimension.) 21. Finished! I didn't time myself while making this. It's not terribly detailed, so I guess it took a total of 1.5 hours (give or take a bit) not including all the picture taking. More detailed pieces take up to 3 or 4 hours. It truly is a lot of layering, and it's easier to build up the felt rather than take it away. Does anything about this process surprise you?
Learn to paint with wool with this detailed needle felted picture tutorial suitable for beginners onward and featuring my favourite Herdwick sheep.
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Seaside Wool Painting, Felt Landscape, Coastal Felt picture, Oceanic Botanical felt art, Mother's Day gift, Needle felted Wall Art, Felt art Not Framed MADE TO ORDER (Due to being handmade and made to order, you May recive an artwork with small differences from the one in photos here) 14.5x15cm My working methods include hand-made felting processes incorporating traditional and contemporary techniques, needle felting, wet felting and stitch work. Wool fibres predominate, integrated with plant and cellulose fibres, to create unusual textures and pictures. They invite interaction and personal confrontation with life and its unexpected pathways also inspired by nature and a desire to push boundaries whilst creating an impact to promote greater understanding of human frailty. A thoughtful gift for your mom, nature and felt art enthusiast, or for anyone who enjoys the colors and textures of fiber art. If you look at my shop you will find variety of Wool Paintings of different size and colors. Unique art that you will not find anywhere else. It's handmade with beautiful colors and very warm piece of art. You can contact me for different size requests. Make sure to get it framed so it will remain the beauty for years. Thank you for visiting🙋felt picture felt art wool painting
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Hello folks, welcome to my arty little blog. Today I'm going to share a few of the best bits from my workdesk this week. It's What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday so once you've read my blog, check out more WOYWWers sharing their work today at Julia's Stamping Ground. I've been working on lots of new designs and ideas to develop my work over the past few weeks. Here's my work desk today. Keen-eyed WOYWW readers might spot that this is actually Twiglet's (my mum's) workdesk - I've poached the d
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