Watercolor Felt Book
Author: Patricia Sparks
This workbook is intended to help you learn the technique developed by Pat Spark, called "Watercolor Felt". Ms. Spark calls her method by this name because she uses concepts from painting and applies those concepts to feltmaking. The result is felts that are visually similar to watercolors, but which are totally made of dyed fiber. There is no actual painting involved, unless you consider the placement of each individual colored fiber as "painting" with the fiber. The process involves the use of both the traditional wet felting method and needle felting, also known as the dry felting method. Following Spark's instructions with these two felting methods, you will be able to create your own pictorial felts. Don't know how to draw? Don't worry; included are methods for working from photographs to create your images.
The workbook is divided into two sections. Section One describes basic felting information. Section Two is a series of samplers that will take you step by step through the various needle felting and wet felting methods you will need for doing the process. The samplers are sequential, with each one building upon the techniques of the last so that you will methodically gain the expertise needed to make pictorial felts.
