{"id":325,"date":"2006-12-12T21:21:42","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T20:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/?p=325"},"modified":"2015-11-01T19:21:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T19:21:33","slug":"a-new-series-winter-chalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":"a new series – winter chalk"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past weekend I worked on 3 new pieces of felt.<\/p>\n

I laid them all up at the same time, felted the first and then waited another 24 hours before I did the last two. Working like this I was able to get a feeling of how some of the new materials I have been using work, and how best to use them.<\/p>\n

I wanted to try out some of the new things I have bought including more experiments with the wool neeps, the uncared fleece, and the dyed alpaca. This is the first piece I worked on,<\/p>\n

\"winter_field_one_blog.jpg\"<\/p>\n

It worked quite well, but the actually piece of felt did not end up in the shape I wanted which was longer and narrower. It also lacks definition in the areas where I wanted it, I think this was due to my being too concerned with overloading the piece with details. So at least from this I learnt, and I stepped back from the other two, and had a think and a\u00c2\u00a0 bit of breathing space.<\/p>\n

After a day I looked at the last two pieces, and started to re-work them, and adjust the features in them, and add more detail and colour.<\/p>\n

This is the second one,<\/p>\n

\"winter_field_two_blog.jpg\"<\/p>\n

To me this had developed into more of the piece I wanted, like a piece of chalk with moss growing and the weathering effect that you get on chalk.<\/p>\n

I really like it, and I want to take some more detailed shots of it, when the lighting is better.<\/p>\n

I then turned to my last piece, which again, follows the walls of chalk that I grew up around. This piece, I really re-worked, overlaying a section with new details, particularly the uncarded fleece. I really like the depth to this piece, here it is,<\/p>\n

\"winter_field_three_blog.jpg\"<\/p>\n

I’m very pleased with the second two, even though the third one is quite colourful, it feels like winter to me \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

More soon, I hope!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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