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I'M BACK! INTRODUCING "FIBRE ART PLUS" WORK IN PROGRESS- (Stage 1 complete)
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Apologies to all of you who are art purists. We have now accepted 'digital' art as acceptable nowadays. I am now introducing 'Fibre Art' - which is wool fibres being used to 'paint' pictures. The method I am using is called 'needle felting' where you punch the fibres into the background with a special barbed needle. The 'plus' bit in my title is that my 'painting' with have a variety of embellishments added using anything I consider suitable for that particular section of the painting.
As this method of painting needs careful planning and development, it will take some time to complete Stage 2.
This painting is based on the work of Alphonse Mucha who did all things Art Nouveau style. In fact I have in my Mixed Media Gallery another painting by him.
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Thank you for your welcome back people. The watercolour idea never took off with me Ellen because I couldn't achieve what I wanted to with that medium. I have spent the past months studying art forms and decided needle felting gave me the 3D effect I wished to achieve. I use Merino wool which is a very soft fibre. You can add soapy water and make it into felt, Robert, but I wish to use it as is. It comes in the most beautiful colours, like paint and you can blend wools together, using brushes, to make further colours. It does have a texture very similar to rug Sylvia which I love. As you know 
the boundaries of arts and crafts have moved much closer in recent years and so all these can now be termed 'art forms'. In the second stage of the painting, I will refine it by adding some well placed embroidery and my idea is to crotchet a gold shawl over the gold coloured felt. The dress will have material appliqued over it. As I stated earlier, all this has to be figured out to see what works best and lastly her skin and face has to be enhanced together with her hair, which will be long, with a felt flower in.
I did put a photo on but for some reason it came up as an attachment, so I will try putting that on again.
the boundaries of arts and crafts have moved much closer in recent years and so all these can now be termed 'art forms'. In the second stage of the painting, I will refine it by adding some well placed embroidery and my idea is to crotchet a gold shawl over the gold coloured felt. The dress will have material appliqued over it. As I stated earlier, all this has to be figured out to see what works best and lastly her skin and face has to be enhanced together with her hair, which will be long, with a felt flower in.
I did put a photo on but for some reason it came up as an attachment, so I will try putting that on again.
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I suppose I might agree with you Splosh. I wonder what the furry hollow cylinder was supposed to be for? Perhaps that is abstract fibre art??
Thank you for the welcome back Margaret. Have looked at Ali Scott's website - beautiful. Also looked at Lorna Soar, who Robert mentioned. Also beautiful work. Although to be fair to her, she doesn't cut out and stick bits of felt on but rather makes the picture up with felt fibres and then makes them into felt by adding soapy water and massaging the fibres together, which is called wet felting. This however, would be too messy for me. But never say never!!.
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Nice to read your post Adele I'll be interested in seeing more of your work.
You will probably be interested in the work which Bobby Britnell does. She is a talented textile artist working in South Shropshire her website is:
-http://www.bobbybritnell.co.uk
She runs an impressive website which, in addition to details of her courses and textiles, includes her drawings and paintings of the Shropshire hills. Some of these she transfers onto cotton fabric and develops with machine stitching.
It is good to hear from another artist who is breaking new ground.
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This is the finished project - just put on the gallery. As you can see I changed quite a lot as some of my initial ideas didn't work so well for me in the fibres. A bit of an ambitious first project in this medium but I have learnt an awful lot on the way. A lot of improvements could be made to this, but hopefully I will improve as I go on!
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