I've been felting for quite a while. I took a class at a place here in Tallahassee, Wooly Bully, back in high school. I love that I can make the felt do exactly what I want, plus they carry so many great colors that I always end up spending forever making decisions on what to use. I made a bunch of these critters for my college holiday bazaar each year, and they sold like hot cakes. I need to make new ones to try and sell them here in town.
These are some of my last pieces from my final semester. The top one was half of my BFA show. The process is pretty involved, I machine sew them together first, then gesso the areas I want to paint later, then embroider, then oil paint, then stretch it over a panel that I usually tone so slight color shows through. I think I might have described this process before, if so sorry you had to suffer through it again.
I suddenly had the urge to get out the old pen & ink, here are some results. I really enjoy doing it, but being that I don't usually work with text, I don't know what kind of things to make. Preferably some one will see it and realize they need some hand done calligraphy in their life and hire me to do some invitations or something.
During my visit to Memphis I decided to try my hand at some more fully developed illustrations, I did a few more that I will upload later when the computer stops being belligerent. Feedback, pretty please!
