Creating Felt Pictures

Feltmaking is a popular medium for craftsmen, but few have explored its potential as an art form. This new books demonstrates the exciting scope of pictorial feltmaking and explains how to create felt pictures with the depth and atmosphere usually associated with a graphite drawing or a watercolour painting. Written by a leading felt artist, it shows to work freely with the wool as if it were paint or a piece of charcoal. . Essential feltmaking skills for the beginner, as well as techniques and inspiration for the more experienced feltmaker . Advice on how drawing and painting skills, such as perspective, composition and the use of colour, can be applied to felt pictures . Illustrated with stunning pictures of finished works, as well as practical demonstrations . Guide to the presentation and framing of work AUTHOR: Andrea Hunter is a professional felt artist. She has taught and exhibited widely, and her work is held in private collections throughout the world. Her gallery, Focus on Felt in the Yorkshire Dales, houses a permanent display of her distinctive felt pictures. SELLING POINTS: . A new book that covers the exciting scope of feltmaking as an art form . Aimed at novice and more experienced felt makers, artists and the textile market . Explains how to create felt pictures with depth and atmosphere and to work freely with wool as if it were paint ILLUSTRATIONS: 96 colour *