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I made the felt using the wet felting method. I added silk tops for texture and movement
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More painted papers. I painted these with acrylic paints on brown paper, which is a really good malleable surface for creating texture with paint, with the intention of cutting them up and using them in the sample below
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I used a calico base layered with scrim, heat distressed chiffons, felt tops and the paper painted with acrylics. On top of that I added plastic and distressed mulberry bark, stitched through it with silver metallic thread and added a few beads here and there
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The piece as a whole represents melting ice. The plastic reflects the light and represents ice cold water
3 comments:
I enjoy making felt too! I love the colours- truly icy
Beautiful painted papers and an interesting sample. I must get round to sewing with papers. I like your addition of beads in the sample and the kozo (mulberry) fibres.
Thank you Sharne and Julie, really nice to hear from you xx
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