Well my project has taken a few different turns. I wet felted the base after laying the layers of color onto the indigo base. While wet felting usually creates a very different result than what is laid out, I think by having a needle felted base, or allowed me a little more control. I loved the result.
I decided to use the Apache story i heard a year ago as a theme, a opposed to animals in a winter forest. I was thinking of making the yellow bear the creator, but thought the yellow may be too vibrant against the night sky. So I thought of doing the base in brown and adding the yellow on top of the base in order to tone it down a bit. I cut out paper bears to get the scale right and then felted for several days. The result was a bust. I wanted a 3D bear and while I can use the bear. He won't be making an appearance in this project. So I was back to square one. How to make the creator. I thought I'd try to make a nondescript figure with a robe, but that looked like Sasquatch, so he's out too. I did remember seeing a beautiful piece at a home of a neighbor of a friend of mine. I think it was needlepoint and while I don't recall exactly, I believe it was a woman's profile in the night sky. So I made a man. Hmm, maybe he should become a she. This is rough and may transform into something different, but this is what I have so far. I think I'll still need a yellow bear somewhere, but we'll see. This is always a journey with a different outcome than I envision at the beginning. I'll do another post with the beautiful Apache story soon. It deserves it's own post.
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