Monday, February 21, 2011

Elephant Sculpture: "The Matriarch" is in the House!!!

Some 80 hours, 14 ounces of wool and many wrinkles  later, photos of the Elephant Matriarch follow:
(Ginny Weiler, Photographer)

 
She measures 8.5 inches tall x 13 inches long (trunk to tail). No armature was used. All wool!!

Imagine a 14 ounce pile of fluffy Suffolk down wool needled tightly into this shape.


The tusks were the hardest part of all!




I loved adding the wrinkles here, trunk, sides, back legs, flanks, ears, etc.

The Quarter is there just for scale.
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12 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 21, 2011 at 12:14 PM

    Wow, That is the most awesome piece of needle felting ever!.
    Such incredible talent.

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  2. UnknownFebruary 21, 2011 at 12:42 PM

    Holy pachyderms! That is astounding - great work!

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  3. farmerFebruary 21, 2011 at 1:27 PM

    beautiful!
    I love her ears!

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 21, 2011 at 2:26 PM

    Stunning!!! You did a fabulous job :)

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 21, 2011 at 4:55 PM

    Beautiful job!

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  6. Laura C FrazierFebruary 21, 2011 at 6:50 PM

    Thanks so much everyone!

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 21, 2011 at 7:46 PM

    I absolutely adore her! My favorite part is the wrinkles around her tushy!!! LOVE HER!!!!!!!

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  8. juliaFebruary 21, 2011 at 10:07 PM

    wonderful! did you get wrinkles too?!! She is perfect. xxx

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  9. AnonymousFebruary 22, 2011 at 9:22 AM

    love the tail. :)

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  10. Laura C FrazierFebruary 22, 2011 at 12:48 PM

    Those wrinkles were my favorite part as well! You should see them up close! (wink)

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  11. Cindy BilesFebruary 23, 2011 at 7:26 AM

    Yes, I love the tushy wrinkles--great detail! (glad others "admitted" it too!) I know you had fun including that. Don't know if you expected them to get so much attention, but I'm always happy when people appreciate inclusion of special features like that!

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  12. Laura C FrazierMarch 15, 2011 at 2:10 PM

    Thanks!!!
    I was hoping for that attention for the tush!

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