old grandson for Chanukah. He does wear his hair in dread locks, and leads a hippie-like life style.This is the photo I started with.
I took artistic licence to color the dreads brightly. The dreadlocks are made from rolled up hand dyed repurposed dryer sheets. The face is made up of layers of cotton fabrics, the base is hand dyed cotton by Chris at Dye Candy.
The substrait fabic is brown felt, bound in cotton. I have top sewn the entire background in swirls using brown varaigated and gold metallic threads. Some of the swirls are painted with paint sticks.
I love the 3-dementionality of the piece.
I love the 3-dementionality of the piece. click on photos to enlarge
The head and hair are hand sewn to the background piece, as
The head and hair are hand sewn to the background piece, as
is the binding.
Let me know what you think.
Let me know what you think.
It's 17" X 19".
I will probably make this again, as I would love to enter it into a show.
I will probably make this again, as I would love to enter it into a show.
