Saturday 23 July 2011

A vase of flowers



I came across this painting by the French artist Odilon Redon (1840-1916) and something about it made me wonder how it might transfer into felt. 

So I lay out a background in blended colours and lightly needlefelted it to hold together. I cut out the vase from a piece of black prefelt and needled that in place. I then "painted" in the flowers and leaves by needling in wisps of coloured wool. I had to blend together colours to get them right. Then I covered the whole thing in gauze and gently wetfelted it between sheets of bubble wrap. 
Now it needs some stitching highlights. 


Et voila!



3 comments:

  1. Look forward to seeing this finished!

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  2. Lovely. Some stitching will really bring it to life. Happy stitching!
    Penny

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  3. Deborah, I'm happy you stopped by my blog. This picture come out lovely. Browsed your previous blogs, the poppies are very nice. Looks finished with machine free-stitches are very good. I'm also found fabric arts wonderful and hope to explore felting. I'm sorry my google a/c has problem in posting comments, only "Anonymous" does. This is Terrie from Hong Kong http://terriekwong@blogspot.com

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