New Flowers

I started out thinking the dark green/navy background would be a base layer with lighter layers over it but when I saw the bright flowers agains the dark colors they just popped.   Needless to say, I ended up leaving them as is.

Someone once asked me whether felting or the desire to produce a particular image came first.  They were looking at a bison titled "King of the Prairie".   It seemed to them that I may have been looking at a bison and thinking that felt would be the perfect medium to create a bison but for me it is actually the opposite.   I will look at a delicate flower and wonder if I can create it in felt and still retain the delicacy.  After all, felt is really considered a delicate material.   On the other had, a beautifully constructed felt picture will behave like water color.   In the felting process the fibers roam, lock together and shrink to produce water color like effects.  Sometimes I can hold a hard edge and sometimes I prefer to let the fibers roam.   You can also decide to felt to hard felt or a softer felt which also produces a different texture.   It is the mastery of the ancient art of felting that intrigues me and using it as a fine art rather than as a craft.