Needlework
06/23/2018 Anastasia Prozheva
Nowadays a lot of women are engaged in needlework. Cross-stitching, knitting, origami - all this, of course, is very interesting and requires effort and talent, but it has become banal and not so interesting. But felting paintings from wool is definitely an original activity, the paintings turn out simply amazing, they can be a wonderful accessory for decorating your interior or a gift for any occasion. In our article we will tell you everything about this unusual activity.
There are two felting techniques - dry and wet, we will try to tell you about both options. Our first lesson will be in the dry felting technique; after each stage of work, the product should be held under glass to secure it; this technique is not used in wet felting.
"Winter night"
We bring to your attention a master class that is perfect for beginning needlewomen, because the painting itself is not complicated, and the lesson will be very detailed, with step-by-step instructions and photos of each stage of the work.
To work you will need:
- Wool (white, blue, dark blue, light blue, turquoise, dark brown, brown, yellow, orange and red);
- Non-woven backing measuring 18 x 24 centimeters;
- Scissors;
- Tweezers;
- Photo frame with glass.
We take strands of wool and cover the surface of the base (non-woven backing) with them. We lay out our pieces in different directions, the wool should protrude beyond the base by about two centimeters (a little less is possible). Now cover the craft with glass and cut off the excess pieces.
Now we need to make the background. We lay wool in different shades (from dark to light). Then we put the glass on again and cut off the excess particles.
Since our painting will depict winter, we need to make snowdrifts. To do this, take white wool and lay it horizontally at the bottom of the picture.
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Now we take dark blue wool, twist it into small “sausages” and lay out the silhouettes of trees with them.
It’s winter here, our trees need to be “dusted” with snow. We take white yarn, twist it into a “sausage” and lay out snow-covered trees.
Again, we make a tree crown from white wool; to do this, the wool needs to be fluffed up a little.
Now we make a ring out of white or yellow wool and place it on the picture, thus we have outlined the outline of the moon. We cut the wool into small pieces and fill our moon.
Now we “build” a house from brown and dark brown wool. The wall located on the side of the moon should be lighter; this should be taken into account when working.
Now we make dense pieces of white wool and make the roof of our house from them. The edges should be smooth and crisp; it is best to trim them with scissors.
The lower part of the house needs to be covered with “drifts”; it is not worth mentioning what color yarn we make them from.
Now we make windows and a door from yellow or white wool.
Now let's give our picture even more realism by adding light pouring from the windows. We make shimmers from orange and yellow wool. You can use tweezers to drape white and yellow wool over the house.
It is better to mute bright colors with thin strands of white wool, and small turquoise hairs can add expressiveness to the picture.
Our painting “Winter Night” is finished. Now place it in a beautiful frame under glass and you can safely hang it on the wall or give it to family or friends.
We invite you to look at some other paintings, perhaps you will gain new ideas or be inspired to create a new masterpiece.
Wet felting
As noted above, there is another technique for creating paintings from wool - wet felting. It is a little more complicated in its execution, but the resulting paintings are no worse, unusual and beautiful.
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The master class is very detailed, each action is explained in accessible language, the instructions will be understandable to both beginning needlewomen and experienced girls who have long been familiar with the wet felting technique. This work will be a little more complicated, but no less interesting and exciting.
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Paintings using the wool watercolor technique are always impressive: texture, softness of lines, relief of the image.
Of course, in order to collect a “palette” of wool fibers, you need to engage in this type of creativity for more than a year. But even with a small set of colors, you can achieve the desired shade by mixing strands of wool, just like paints in watercolors. I often use photographs as a sketch of future work (I take pictures wherever possible, the landscape I like, flowers, animals), but I do not follow the image exactly, I change the drawing, shorten it or add to it. Today I would like to present a master class on creating a picture from wool, which my student Anya S., 12 years old, did with my help. We called the landscape “My native land forever beloved...”. 1. Materials and tools: sketch, felting wool, scissors, tweezers, felting needle, frame with glass, gauze or non-woven fabric. Photo 1.
2. A sheet of white paper with a sketch made in pencil is pasted onto the cardboard. Gauze is glued on top using a glue stick. If you use non-woven fabric, you can sketch directly on it. Photo 2.
3. The fibers are applied in thin strands to the canvas in accordance with the sketch: horizontally or vertically, and depicting clouds, slightly twisted into “curls”. Photos 3 and 4.
4. You need to start from the background, in our case from the forest in the distance. To do this, small strands of wool of several colors are twisted into flagella and cut into short pieces over the canvas. Photos 5, 6, 7. 5. Small parts are applied using tweezers and, so as not to move, they are pressed down with a special needle for felting. Photo 8,9.
6. Moving to the foreground, you need to remember that the details of the landscape should be larger and lighter. By mixing three or four shades of the same color, you can get the volume of the image, the play of shadows, and movement. Photos 10, 11, 12. 7. At the end, when it would seem that the work is already completed, small details are added: reflections on the water, small flowers, twigs, pebbles on the path. In our case, we straightened the forest line a little and added shadows. Photo 13,14,15. 8. The picture must be covered with glass, while trying not to move anything, and insert it into the frame. Ready! The young artist is very pleased! Photo 16, 17.
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