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Post by Pandagirl on Feb 3, 2014 21:38:33 GMT
Thanks everyone!
Lyn, I had no problem with the thick and thin yarn, they were 100% wool and with the mohair traversing the design I think helped. I was more concerned with the silks and tencel. I used very light whisps of merino over a couple of these areas and made sure the bulky areas of silk cocoons had something over them. But the wool underneath seemed to just grab on to everything and attach. I did brush up the prefelt a little to help that. It is still dimensional as well.
The only post surgery I did was a little roughing up of the nepps and needle felting some of them back in.
Halay, this was my first fairly even shape. I had it dry on a towel covered screen and stretched it out and pinned the corners. I may rewet my autumn challenge piece and try blocking that a little better. I think this may be a wall hanging unless I can find a pillow that size. Good idea!
Zed, thanks for pointing out the blurrines. I either have too much light or not enough. Right now there's not much good natural light here.
I look forward to seeing everyone's Polllacks. I'm going to give it another try. It was a lot if fun!
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Post by koffipot on Feb 4, 2014 9:26:17 GMT
Lovely piece Marilyn! Love the texture. I can't get inspired on this challenge at all! Partly, I think because Pollock's work doesn't excite me. Though that said I'm liking what I see on here.
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Post by zed on Feb 4, 2014 11:22:30 GMT
Yeah, that's a much better photo, Marilyn! The colours are great and I can see the shine much better now, too " I either have too much light or not enough. Right now there's not much good natural light here." Exactly the same problem here, too much 'bleaches' out the photo. not enough and it is blurred. Wool/felt is hard enough to photograph at the best of times! Judith, look for his 'figurative' pieces, still abstract, but bolder.
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Post by koffipot on Feb 4, 2014 13:28:30 GMT
Thanks zed, have had a look and I'm afraid he still doesn't do anything for me.
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Post by halay on Feb 4, 2014 14:41:31 GMT
koffipot, I have the same problem: inspiration just doesn't come. Pollock is not my cup of tea.
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Post by Pandagirl on Feb 4, 2014 15:29:22 GMT
Thanks Judith and Zed.
Zed I have bright overhead lights in the basement. I turned them off and used the flash for this last pic. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I'm glad you pointed it out. I'm still learning. :-)
Judith and Halay -- I happen to like abstract, but I found this project was fun because I could let the kid in me just play and throw the pieces down and I didn't have the expectation it had to look exactly like something. Kind of like finger painting with wool and silk. My grandsons were finger painting recently and that kind of helped me kick it in gear. :-) Perhaps try using favorite colors like I did. However it turns out, I'm sure it will be fine. Just enjoy the process!
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Post by halay on Feb 5, 2014 10:14:16 GMT
Here's my Pollock-inspired felt work. Nothing special. I was just throwing wisps of red, yellow and organge wool on black background and used all sorts of yarn I had been saving for this project. I was trying to keep the edges straight, but one corner went its own way :-(
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Post by zed on Feb 5, 2014 10:44:14 GMT
I like that, Halay It's not always possible to keep edges/corners straight when using embellishments, it's just physics, something will pull in one direction, making something bulge in another, and you've probably got lots of different wools with different shrinkage rates there too.
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Post by lyn on Feb 5, 2014 14:24:05 GMT
It's very 'Pollock' Halay - you've captured the spirit - and it looks good with organic edges!
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Post by Pandagirl on Feb 5, 2014 14:41:13 GMT
Great job Halay. Wait to you see the one I did yesterday --it's still drying. They could be twins! You did capture the Pollack spirit. Sometimes it's hard to get out of our creative comfort zones. Did you have fun?
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Post by luvswool and dyestuff on Feb 5, 2014 14:48:33 GMT
Nice, Halay! Were you inspired by a particular painting?
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Post by MTRuth on Feb 5, 2014 17:17:05 GMT
Great job Halay - the challenges are supposed to get you to try something new and perhaps try a color scheme or abstract method of working that you wouldn't normally do. So you did great even though Pollock isn't your cup of tea. I like the yellow-orange-reds on the black.
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Post by Shepherdess on Feb 5, 2014 18:07:29 GMT
I think you did great. And yes sometimes the felt has ideas of its own and does its own thing no matter what you try.
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Post by halay on Feb 5, 2014 18:14:30 GMT
Thanks for your comments, girls. In this project I was not thinking at all. All I knew was that it should have a black background and some bright colours. From then on I was just throwing fibres like Pollock who was pouring his colours on canvas. yes, in a way it was fun because when I do something "serious" I do a lot of thinking and planning and laying wool takes me a lot of time.
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Post by Pandagirl on Feb 5, 2014 23:52:34 GMT
I finished my second Pollack today. It wasn't drying fast enough so I threw it in the dryer which was a good thing since it was a little larger than I wanted. Fortunately the dryer did it and it ended up exactly the size I wanted -- 12x16" (30 x 41cm). I remembered this time to do before and after pictures. The project on the right is not part of the challenge, but I thought as long as I was rolling one, I'd roll two at the same time. I had made silk paper last year with mulberry silk, sari threads and throwsters waste. I had been trying to decide what to do with it and finally decided to lay out on black and I liked the look. feltingandfiberstudio.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/2014-02-04-14-03-20.jpgfeltingandfiberstudio.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/xnims7bkjlvn7vwodvkb.jpg You can see why mine can be Haley's twin. We used the similar colors from Convergence. The white in the left picture is some of the silk hankies gone bad from the cocoon experiment. I used dyed silk hankies pulled out into roving, locks, wool roving -- some of which was tufts of felted roving from wool dyeing gone bad, nepps, wool yarn a couple of silk carriier rod pieces on black prefelt. I didn't do any "post surgery" on this one even though I lost some nepps. I was happy with the results on both. The silk paper turned out better than I expected. It is really shiny and nicely textured. On to the sample project...
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