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Some years ago I purchased the Sunbonnet Sue pattern and I have now decided it was time to create a new Felt Wall-Hanging - Sunbonnet Sue, Bunny and Flowers - which you can all make at home or with your groups!
About Sunbonnet Sue - Bertha Corbett Melcher is credited as a creator of the Sunbonnet designs. She illustrated children's Primer books in the early 1900s. Her book, “The Sunbonnet Babies” was published in 1900. In this book she depicted girls with their faces hidden by their bonnets.
I have given you a tutorial of my Sunbonnet Sue Wall-Hanging, but you can add or take away any of the embellishments - have fun and be creative...!
You will need...
One A4 sheet of felt for background
Scraps of felt for Sunbonnet Sue, Bunny and Flowers
A string of daisy trimming - or whatever you have
Buttons for flowers and bonnet
Cotton wool tail and googly eye for bunny -
Fabric glue or double sided tape to attach tail and eye
Embroidery thread for stitching
Ribbon and a wooden dowel to hang
How to make it...
Print the pattern / template of Sunbonnet Sue and Bunny and Flowers
Cut out your Sunbonnet Sue, Bunny and Flowers from your felt
Taking your A4 background felt, turn over a hem of about 2cm along the long edge and stitch down
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| The Massive Rhino |
The one thing our teacher showed us, that has stayed with me over the years, is how to use Acrylic paint as a Watercolour base.
When using pure Watercolour, it is difficult to portray texture - for us amateurs anyway! To overcome this, try painting a coat of Acrylic paint on first. Let me explain!
In the ACEO above of the Rhino (if you need to know what an ACEO is, have a look HERE) you will see the rhino has a textured, rough hide.
To get this effect I sketched in the drawing in pencil and then painted the Rhino only, with a layer of white Acrylic paint. While still wet, I roughed up the surface of the hide, keeping inside the lines, and smoothing and shaping the appropriate areas - keeping the roundness of the animal and particularly the legs, in mind.
Only paint the Rhino with the Acrylic base, leaving the rest of the painting until this base is hard dry.
Then take out your Watercolours and paint in your background as usual, just leaving off the shadows under the Rhino for now.
Next, go back to the Rhino and over-paint the Acrylic base with Watercolour. This is great fun, as the Watercolour sits on top and can be easily moved around, until you get the effects of light and shade and colours, as you want them!
Lastly put in the shadows, under the Rhino feet and body.
This method can also be used in landscape to give texture to rocks and other rough terrain and of course in other animals with rough hide like Elephants and Hippos.
Hope this is helpful - give it a go and enjoy being creative!
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