Friday 8 April 2016

Fibre and Thread Sketching - WATER

Oh dear.. I'm getting very behind posting these on here.. and time to actually join in is also in short supply - for the last 3 weeks I haven't 'sketched'. 
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From week 9

Time was short and I really wanted a quick little project..  so many possibilities for ‘water’ would of demanded a lot of time.  I wanted to keep it simple, the inspiration for this was the ‘big fella’ in our koi pond :) although I simplified his colour/patterning a little.


I drew the outline onto commercial prefelt and cut out..

Here he is swimming across the cover of my Koi book.
I used the photos in here to get the right shape - our fish are never still long enough for my slow eyes :)

Background of dark green prefelt with blue and green silk-caps and bits of silk chiffon fabric

The prefelts melted in like butter!

Finished.. quick and simple koi :)
Gary was pleased.. this is his favourite fish!

2 comments:

Lyn said...

I like the shape you've cut your fish - it gives movement to the piece as the fish looks as if it's going to swim off the edge of the felt!

FeltersJourney said...

Thanks Lyn :)