Whew, I was beginning to think that I would NEVER get my largest ArtL!nks vessel felted and fulled!!!!! Over the last week or so I have been giving it a rub and a roll every time I had a spare minute and yesterday afternoon I...
My upcoming workshops at Urban Fauna Studio SF, Plainwell MI and Lexington KY are in the last stages of finalising, I hope to have all the details about the various workshops ready by the end of this week!!! I keep forgetting how difficult it is...
My largest ArtL!nks vessel is now underway and I thought I would share this picture with you all, it's not got the best colour contrast but it does give an idea of the size involved when you see the template beside my washing up bowl...
Almost no words today (truck problems etc. so run out of time) but a detailed picture of my latest felt vessel, this one is 100% mohair and incredibly squishy, soft and tactile. Had friends over for a loooong lunch yesterday and Eileen made the comment that it...
You know the saying 'less is more' but do you think that the opposite holds and would it be possible to say that 'more is less' at times as well??? If ever this were the case the experiments I have been felting this week incorporating mohair might hold true to...
Continuing with the theme of sculptural felt for my ArtL!nks work, this weekend I played around with surface embellishment. Between Friday afternoon and Sunday night I felted one small vessel incorporating a plastic net (the net that my clemintines came in) at the lay out stage...
Thanks for all your comments re. the yoga ball, I am now wondering if my new ball has a puncture somewhere so I need to try and inflate Cathy's with the foot pump before I go into total breakdown mode! It is FREEZING at Clasheen this morning, still...
Following on from yesterday's post the shaping and fulling of the vessel takes a lot of time once the opening is cut and sealed. The steps that I go through are as follows ...
The vessel I started during the week needs a couple more hours work and then hopefully it will be fully felted and fulled. I realise from some of your comments here, on Facebook and via email that it might be helpful if I wrote down the steps...
This morning I started my largest ArtL!nks vessel to date, the template I am using is a couple of inches bigger all round than my dustbin lid or trash can lid as those of you would say in the USA! I know that part of my original...
