Flowers in Felt & Stitch

Creating Floral Artworks Using Fleece, Fibres and Threads

Moy Mackay (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

128 Seiten

2014
Search Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78221-031-3 (ISBN)

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This inspiring book contains 4 step-by-step projects, along with vibrant galleries of Moy’s work. The focus of the book is flowers – in still life, in the landscape and as botanical portraits – and it includes an in-depth techniques section showing how to create a range of different flower and leaf shapes.

Packed with colour and style, this gorgeous and inspiring new book from Scottish artist Moy Mackay delves deep into the world of felt painting. The book includes an introduction to Moy’s use of colour and texture, as well as a useful section detailing what inspires her and how she forms these initial ideas into a composition. There are 4 easy-to-follow but inspiring step-by-step projects, along with extensive galleries of Moy’s vibrant work. Unlike the broad range of her previous book, the focus here is flowers – in still life, in the landscape and as botanical portraits – and the book includes an in-depth techniques section on creating a range of different flower and leaf shapes, so that the reader can go on to produce their own unique masterpieces.

"Moy's passionate use of colour and the deep texture created by felting are what draw me to her work. I also like the way that she concentrates on her surroundings for her subject matter – her work is very free."-Kaffe Fassett

Since graduating from the Glasgow School of Art in 1990 with a degree in Design specialising in printed textiles, Moy Mackay has gone on to develop an innovative felting style. Using merino fleece fibres in the same way that a painter uses brushstrokes, she then embellishes them with machine and hand embroidery. She has exhibited her work at numerous venues throughout the UK and also in the US, and she has built up a steadily increasing fan base. Moy works from her studio in the Tweed Valley as well as running The Moy Mackay Gallery in Peebles. Since her first bestselling book Art in Felt & Stitch was published in April 2012, followed by Flowers in Felt & Stitch in 2014, Moy’s work has gained worldwide exposure and she now teaches classes both at home and abroad. In 2013 she won Silver in the category of Textiles and Needlecraft, judged by Kaffe Fassett at the British Craft & Design Selected Awards. In 2016 Moy was a contestant on Sky Arts' Landscape Artist of the Year where she was shortlisted to the final three in her heat.

Introduction 6

Materials and equipment 10

Inspiration 22

Colour 30

Adding texture and detail 36

Techniques 40

Essential flower forms 64

Leaves 82

Flower study 86

Flowers in still life 94

Flowers in the landscape 112

Index 128

Verlagsort	Tunbridge Wells
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 280 mm
Gewicht	562 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Handarbeit / Textiles
ISBN-10	1-78221-031-8 / 1782210318
ISBN-13	978-1-78221-031-3 / 9781782210313
Zustand	Neuware