After gathering ideas, working through some sketches and pulling out all the colors of merino and polymer I thought I'd need. I finally got to work again over the past few weeks.
I wanted to work with more elements in the foreground than I did in the last felted landscape. I spent a significant amount of time making different polymer 'beads' to add, and felting elements that resemble lichen and moss before I even started to layout the layers and layers of wool for the background.
Now it's finally to a point where most of the wet felting is finished and I have it pinned to the foam backing to start working with layers and layers of needle felting and stitching.
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| Beginning to layout all the elements. |
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| Polymer pieces in the midst of adding texture and color veneers. |
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| The initial merino wool layers for the background. |
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| Wet felted shelf lichen. |
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| Felt, silk and polymer elements to mimic mosses. |
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| Finally pinned on the foam work space to work with layers and layers of needle felting and stitching. |
