This is fulfillment of an earlier blog promise to make a creature without feet! I’m still refining my fairy making technique and the muse said to create a mermaid. This delectable creature is currently nameless. I spent a lot of time making her head and decorating her tail with seed beads (not an occupation I can recommend to those of us with vision issues!) After completion I messed around with photographing her in different poses and tried to get her “swimming”. Lighting is an issue, especially when your subject has to be suspended from something (that took some working out).
The hardest part of making these wooly creatures is the sheer time it takes to get the wool felted into the shape you want. My mermaid took over a week to make - not working 8 hours a day, but doing as much felting as my hands will let me! I am rather pleased with her though. It still amazes me how you can sculpt a body out of wool. The faces always take a long time to come together and look really quite ugly and downright angry in the middle stages. She’s still a little haughty looking, but that’s her personality. She’s a princess of a mermaid and has already put in an order for a throne and a merman companion (so not demanding all…!!! >.< No one warned me about that! The fairies are laughing…)
