Kim Cowley ........ witches from Oz

Kim Cowley is friend from a former facebook group and a very talented artist. She works in many different mediums and I so enjoy her friendship and aesthetic. I trust you will as well. Oma Linda

Small Postcard sized card mounted print of one of my original works...

 



Through the eye of storm

She flew to the land of Oz

And what a magical place it was

A land that was full of sweet delight

With just a touch of endless night

I admit I stole those lines from Blake

But a better rhyme I could not make!

 

 

Small postcard sized card mounted print of another of my original works:

The wicked witch of Endor

Is nothing to compare

With the witch from the west of Oz

Though perhaps she has more hair!

Three pigtails and one eye you say

My goodness what a sight

lets hope we never meet her

On a dark and stormy night!

 

 

So the description is: Hand Made Wet Felted Wicked Witch Cushion:

The wicked witch of the west

Flew over the yellow brick road

Mumbling wicked curses

Of spiders, bats and toads

Eye of newt and wing of bat

Whoops wrong story!

I'll sign off at that!

 

The wet felted cushion was made from dyed and carded Marino fleece/wool and was made in one piece using a resist (a piece of soft plastic) to stop one side of the cushion felting to the other.

The cushion was made using an inside out method, I drew the design onto the resist using strands pulled from the Marino fleece, dipping bits of fleece into soapy water makes it more pliable to draw with.

Fleece was then layered onto the resist, one side at a time with an overlap left over the edges, each layer was wet with warm soapy water and rubbed gently, the overlap was then turned in on the other side of the resist and a new layer laid over the top. As the layers are built up the resist becomes totally encased in fleece. For this cushion I used three layers on each side.

Once the resist was completely encased the felting begins! This entails wetting with soapy water, bashing, rolling and generally abusing! As the fleece starts to felt the resist begins to pucker this means it is time to cut the cushion open and take the resist out ( I like to keep the cut as small as possible)...then I turned the whole thing inside out to see if the design had survived!! At this stage the felt is still quite fragile and needs further rolling to full it and make it solid.. Once the cushion was fulled I rinsed the soap out, pulled the cushion into shape and left to dry for a few days before stuffing sewing up the cut hole and adding a felt string border as a finishing touch.

 

The first two drawings are in one drawing and the cushion is the second giveaway.

 

Please leave a comment (and a way to contact you) and let me know which of the giveaways you would like on this posting and I will draw the winners on March 23rd.

 

Thank you so much for coming and seeing my altered Oz entry. I missed the deadline last year but my friend April of The Angry Gnome and I share a love of Oz and so she let me know about the Celebrate Oz - aLtREd oZ 2013 and I was all in.

 

Come back to Ye Olde Crones on March 23rd for my giveaway winners.