I took a flight of fancy in the studio last week and made a set of creatures for the upcoming
Rainforest Festival art show.
Making Tyvek beads is a blast and I knew that this technique would make dandy bug bodies if I cut the Tyvek strips wider. I included Angelina Fiber and left-over thread scraps in the twist.
The day before, I made wing material by Gelliprinting on Pellon stiffener, to which I fused Angelina fibers.
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| Here is the green body after being heat-gunned; wing material for the green bug is in the background. |
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| A roll of very fine brass wire has been laying around my studio for years and proved exactly the thing for wiring on the bug heads and forming the antennae. |
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| The green bug head. |
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| Another old spool of wire was the perfect gauge for legs. |
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| I just twisted the leg wire around the bodies. |
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| When the bugs were completely assembled, I hot-glued on their wings. |
The Rainforest Festival art show hangs at the Clausen Museum here in town from August 31 through September 9 with an opening reception during September's First Friday art walk.
