Green Man & New Pages to Cloth Garden

green man

I have been quietly playing with fabric sculptures for some time now and not put much up on Cloth Garden about it.   I have now made two new pages - one which has a collection of photos of fabric sculptures and the other foreshadowing classes to be offered in March 2014.

In the interim I have uploaded some photos of my Green Man in progress here.   The face is made from Apoxie Sculpt and done under the tutalage of Lex Sorrintino.

I hadn't done any sculpting with Apoxie Scupt before and Lex was very generous in her time and instruction.   If you ever get the chance to visit her studio in Canberra I highly recommend it.  She runs both formal classes and a drop in at her studio - you could work in a visit on a Saturday and go to the National Gallery or similiar on Sunday morning before heading back to where ever home is :-).

The 'arms' are a wire armature and covered with Paverpol dipped fabric.  The leaves are actually florists wire with a very light fabric hardened with Paverpol.

Taped wire before wrapping in fabric

 This the wire I use  - the samller roll is galvanise steel and is rather hard to bend with my fingers and I use pliers .   The other wire is made from aluminium and is very soft  and easy to overwork if I am not careful.

After creating the wire armature I wrapped it in alfoil to give it some bulk.  Then I taped it.  After it was taped I wrapped it in the fabric strips whoich had been dipped in coloured Pavorpol and left it to dry.  While it was drying I shaped the leaves out of florists wire and added the leaf with more fabric.

It was all very satisfying to do as a project and I am sure I have a couple more Green Man lurking in my imagination.    They are a very medieval thing and I am looking forward to creating some more as well as some gargoyle type creatures out of paverpol and clay at some stage in the future.

Green Man  completed and hanging on my garden fence