As promised last time, here’s a photo of the finished piece I showed being laid out:
I did make a few small changes to it, just moving one piece of prefelt and a few fibres. This is the painting I was working from:
It’s quite texturey, which you can see better from this angle:
Using just a few colours, gives quite a lot of shades when they overlap or blend:
I thought the migration from the prefelt through to the back was interesting:
After I’d laid that piece out I had a flick through my notebook and found another piece for inspiration. It’s a really simple piece, but I’d used some colours I’d blended:
What was different/nice with this one was the sheen, you can see from this angle:
I wasn’t aiming to replicate this one at all, just use as inspiration. I even found a mastching weird pinky red Merino – ‘Damask’ for the base:
I used Rose and Viscose fibres for the shiny parts, and a small amount of Nylon for the matte:
I really like how it turned out, having some matte areas seemed to make the shiny fibres shinier:
I did add some shiny fibres to match the ‘Damask’ background, but not much:
