The Great Unveiling!

Meet Autumn, the Fall Faerie.  She is just finished and is excited to make her debut at the Oliver Art Show and Sale at the end of the month. 

Autumn is a needle Felted sculpture. 

She is made using wool rovings, some hand dyed...some commercial dying.  And of course beads because life is just better with a bead in it.  her wings are netting, and the pine cones come courtesy of the huge Mugo Pine in my front garden.  Autumn is sitting on a Chantrelle mushroom as they make the best seats.

I am particularly pleased with how her boots turned out.

And....she is ready for her close-up.

There is something quite soothing about doing a sculpture like this using traditional needle felting techniques to make something entirely fanciful.  Anatomy is important, of course - and regular trips to the mirror to see how shoulders set, and feet and hands look. 

I intend for this to be the first of a series of four faeries.  So Winter is next, appropriately, as the \northern hemisphere is now officially in autumn, and winter cannot be far behind can it?

I think, in these troubling times, a bit of fantasy goes a long way to keeping us sane in the face of all the disasters we are faced with.  At least that's my take on it.

And this being my birthday day, the sun is shining, the harvest is being brought in from the fields and life here in my Valley is humming along.  My heart goes out to everyone coping with fire, flood, and earthquake this past few weeks.  If this doesn't bring home the fact of climate change, what will?

Stay safe, stay strong, be well.
Patricia