Course Outline

About this Course

Skills Focus: Needle Felting, Wet felting
Video Lessons: Videos are divided in to easy to digest & easy to reference segments
Difficulty Level: Beginner / Intermediate
Helpful Experience to Have: Intro to needle felting, basic wet felting
Course Length: This course is equivalent to a 1.5-day in person workshop

Create a “big sky” landscape with awesome clouds, trees and a building on a brisk autumn day.

Skills you will Learn:

• How to use light needle felting prior to wet felting to avoid fiber shift
• How to easily blend fiber colors by hand
• How to create smooth and even color transitions in a sky
• How to create depth in the sky with transitions and clouds
• How to build clouds with body, shadow and highlights
• Tips on composition to make your piece more visually pleasing
• How to easily and effectively wet felt with a palm washboard to prevent buckling and to gain control of the felting process.
  (*palm washboard is optional, but Laura’s preferred method for felting her pieces)
• How to add detail and finishing touches after wet felting to sharpen lines and enhance details.
• BONUS!
  * Added tips for making trees using different techniques

Included in this course:

• 24/7, 365 Instant access to the course streamed directly to your computer, tablet or phone
• High quality video instruction divided into short, digestible lessons
• Learn at your own pace and refer back to lessons at any time
• Complete materials list with links to recommended supplies

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Meet the Instructor:

Laura Ricks

Laura Ricks developed a love for art at an early age, spending much of her youth sketching and drawing. While attending college, her creative passions were put on hold to explore a degree in Biology, eventually leading to a career in Medical Technology. However, after 15 years in the lab, she realized all of her time behind the microscope wasn’t allowing her a creative outlet and she struggled to find time at home to create art pieces, mainly working with fibers. When she stumbled upon a set of felted wool ornaments, she was instantly drawn to their soft feel and rich colors and began exploring the techniques of making felt, the oldest known textile. She quickly fell in love with the medium and has been discovering beautiful ways to entangle and bind vibrant wool fibers into textiles since 2017.

Currently Laura lives in Lafayette, Indiana with her husband and children and is dedicated to felting full time. She loves creating landscapes and nature inspired wet felted wall art as well as small needle felted objects. She also enjoys experimenting with new ways to incorporate yarns, silks and other fibers into her felting to create texture and dimension in her work. She has exhibited her work at the Mid-States Craft Exhibition, many juried art fairs and is a two-time recipient of the People’s Choice Award at Art on the Wabash.