This section I hope will provide explanation about how the works are put together.

First, this is the beginnings of Mother and Her Two Daughters. Acrylic yarn is glued along the lines of the cartoon. The next job is to fill in with more yarn: back and forth, around and around. The yarn and glue gun seem made for one another. It is a relaxing occupation.

The background here is more finished than the figures. With the three ladies, I have  glued on a layer of translucent vellum (paper), over the scribble of white yarn, and the figures and the border in the end will, I hope, pop forward a little. A third dimensional edge is sometimes as good as a dark line to define shape. The upper right border is being gessoed, as all the vellum will be.

Coming along. I have applied black gesso to the vellum, so glimpses of it between strands of yarn is not distracting. One good thing about this technique is that it is forgiving. I will do the Mother’s face five times before I find it passable. The glue melts down readily and the yarn can be removed. The face of the little girl will come together spontaneously on first try.

Mother and her two daughters Acrylic yarn and cotton string.

The finished picture. I ran a scribble of cotton string over most everything, as an experiment to give the surface excitement and light. The colors and values of yarn are fixed and tend to be bold and opaque, so blending and painting for light is challenging. This is a technique still under investigation.