Thursday, February 9, 2017

Olga in Ukraine

This landscape is animate: it moves, transposes, builds, proceeds, shifts, always going on, never coming back, and one can only retain it in vignettes, impressions caught in a flash...
~Ann Zwinger

Felted landscapes on brooches by a Ukrainian artist:

Htsvetuschih hills and trees
by Olga

White-flowered landscape
by Olga

Poppies
by Olga

Daisies

Purple flowers
by Olga

Yellow flowers
by Olga

Felt Art tutorials

One last quote. This one's about plain unfelted wool:

My mother told me once that she had her talk with God whenever she started a new sweater: 'Please don't take me in the middle of the sweater.' And as soon as she finished knitting a sweater, and it was blocked and put together, she already had the wool to start the next sweater so that nothing bad would happen.
~Judy Blume

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6 comments:

  1. BenFebruary 9, 2017 at 10:40 AM

    Super cool!

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  2. RettaFebruary 9, 2017 at 3:17 PM

    These are utterly charming! So creative. I love how you find these things from around the world I would never see otherwise. I adore your blog for that very reason!

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  3. HWYFebruary 9, 2017 at 4:03 PM

    Absolutely wonderful. I wondered, though, about the dried flowers around them. They look great in the photos, but are they part of the brooches themselves?

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  4. TabathaFebruary 9, 2017 at 4:12 PM

    Glad y'all like them as much as I do!
    Pretty sure the decorative botanicals in the photos aren't attached. That would certainly change the size of them, wouldn't it!

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  5. HWYFebruary 9, 2017 at 4:54 PM

    And definitely add an element of fragility to them, too!

    I think the brooches don't really need these "backgrounds"...they're beautiful enough on their own.

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  6. Mary LeeFebruary 11, 2017 at 7:44 AM

    These are so. very. gorgeous.

    And that quote by Judy Blume reminds me of Grandy Thaxter's Helper (a picture book you need to read if you haven't -- Grandy Thaxter is just too busy to die!).

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