Sunday 20 March 2016

New works in wool watercolours

Have been working on small floral pieces, playing with colours and new shapes.
This is a new Kindle case with rather familiar yellow daisies. Done some small details differently and pleased with result:


 
This one is very different, I've tried to focus on shapes on poppy pods and stems lines. Far from perfect but still like it as a try!


 
 

6 comments:

  1. Hi Galina, I love your work. Why do you call them wool watercolours? Do you paint them or are they simply dyed felt wet or needle? Thanks.

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    1. Hi Linda! Sorry for a confusing name! Usually it means wet felted wool pieces with images of flowers or landscapes or alike. It's called so because of blurred "watercolour" effect created by felted wool of different colours. These pieces are hand felted using the basic wet felting technique without needle felting or embroidery.

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  2. Hi Galina, Thanks for the quick and thorough reply. That makes sense. You get a lot of detail with simple wet felting and no needle felting or embroidery. Do you use inlays of prefect? I can never get that kind of detail and wonder if that is the key. THANKS

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    1. Linda, I use prefelt very and practically never in floral design, all details are shaped by hand. I think to shape the tiny details by cutting prefelt is too fiddly even more so than by hands!

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  3. Love the poppy pods, nice design :)

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