Category Archives: Figurative Art
Five
Some red roving had been staring at me for days, just asking to be needle felted into a piece.
I learned the technique of making the metal pieces from pop cans in a Hilary Rice workshop.
Circles
I finished this doll a little while ago. She is a version of the Tea Bags doll you can see here. I didn’t post it as I was busy working on things for the Almonte Fibrefest which was last weekend and Calabogie Artsfest which is coming up on October 15 & 16.
Circles
Cloth doll
I named her Circles because her jacket is a circle and because of the pattern in her dress. I didn’t have any lace for the bottom of the dress so instead of making an 80 Km round trip to the nearest store I made some using free-motion embroidery and built-in stitches on my sewing machine on water soluble stabilizer. It took longer than the trip to the store but I’m pleased with the result.
Detail of Face
The face is needle sculpted and painted with chalk pastels.
Tea Bags
This is a cloth doll made from recycled components.
Her clothing contains two different brands of tea bags (three different kinds of tea), parts of old jeans (they once were my favourite pair), a kilt and dental floss. The dental floss was dyed using Bombay Pigmented India Ink and is used for the hair.
The skin was painted with watercolours and the face was done with pastel pencils.
The doll was made in response to a challenge presented by All Dolled Up doll club.
Red Fox 2
A few weeks ago I posted a watercolour of a red fox and said that I might do it in felt.
Well I did and here’s the result.
Red Fox
Using the watercolour as a guide certainly helped the process.
Warm and Cool Colours
Finished 2 small pieces this week for Fibre Fling 5. One is done in cool colours, the other in warm.
Waves
Oranges & Lemons
Both are needle felted.
Meandering
Just finished a new needle felted piece. This time, for the background, I used a piece that I had wet felted years ago and never did anything with.
Meandering
This will be one of the pieces shown at Out of the Box‘s Fibre Fling 5 show in early April.
Purple and Blue
A new needle-felted piece. I’m not sure if it’s finished. I need to live with it for awhile to see what it says to me.
Eddies
I am enjoying playing with colour and texture.
Eddies
Here is my latest felted piece. It will be mounted on a painted canvas. I haven’t yet decided which colour or colours I’m going to paint it. I have fooled around in Photoshop and have come up with several possible versions.
Possible colours for background
Which one do you like best?
This Old House
The house isn’t that old. It’s just that my friends, Margo and Pat have bought a new one. I felted them a reminder of their former house.
Calabogie House
