GREEN
So
many possibilities with green; first I
thought of doing a green man, but knowing me I would of spent way longer than
I wanted to on him :). So I decided to
go off on a literal tangent and do a golf green.. I will confess I pretty much copied the design from clip art.
Just a quick note here.. I don't agree with copying and don't do it (not counting ancient rock art / historic designs which I am irresistibly drawn to incorporating into my work.. and when I asked an artist friend if I could do a felt version of one of her beautiful paintings). So even though it's from clip art, freely available for anyone's use.. I'm still not entirely comfortable about this piece. But I don't plan to sell it, it was made just as an exercise in play.
Just a quick note here.. I don't agree with copying and don't do it (not counting ancient rock art / historic designs which I am irresistibly drawn to incorporating into my work.. and when I asked an artist friend if I could do a felt version of one of her beautiful paintings). So even though it's from clip art, freely available for anyone's use.. I'm still not entirely comfortable about this piece. But I don't plan to sell it, it was made just as an exercise in play.
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First
I copied it in pencil..
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Cutting
out the elements to use as templates..
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for
cutting felt to shape
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Using
pins and a felting needle to temporarily fix the trees in place ..
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Trees
are then free machine stitched to the background.
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All
the pieces are attached in the same way.
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Final touch is a FM embroidered flag and hole,
and I've 'healed' the wavy edges on the white felt
measures 6" x 6" |
1 comment:
I think it's great! Lovely to see your how-to steps.
About the copying thing - it's very hard to be original as so many things have already been done.
Even when you create a design that emerges straight from your imagination, you can bet that other artists have come up with similar ideas because we are all mostly subjected to common influences.
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