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Designed from a watercolor and punched by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2020

Punch needle and needle felting

Cotton threads and hand dyed wool roving on linen

Framed

6″ x 8″

This piece was made after a watercolor my father, Tom Nalsen, made in 1932. It was so much fun to make it, it came out with brighter colors but I like it! It is part of my heritage!

Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2020

Needle felting

Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric

Framed

3″ x 4″

This little piece was made thinking in our mountains in the Venezuelan Andes, beautiful place!

Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2020

Needle felting

Hand dyed wool roving on roving base

Framed

10″ x 10″

My beloved mountain in Caracas, El Avila, Waraira Repano, the indigenous name, that gives its majestic look to our capital. You always know where the North is….where the Avila is! I really miss its looks! I have done several, and all are different, but it is the same Avila!

Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2020

Needle felting

Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric

Framed

5″ x 7″

This was a very special experience. I saw a picture of some mushrooms in strange colors, and it occurred to me I could something similar. I think it came out good. My son told me that they looked as those spsychedelic mushrooms, so that is why the name. Love them!

This is the tour of my studio in Facebook Live that I made on July 9th, 2020. It was an interesting experience. It was made to promote our Show online of the Arts & Cultural Council of Bucks County, PA, where many local artists are exhibiting and selling their works. Visit http://www.bucksarts.org/online.

Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2020

Needle felting

Hand dyed wool roving

Hangers of different materials: metal and wood

It is really a nice therapy to make these small items, mixing colors and trying to make shapes. Easy to wear!

Woven and designed by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2020

Tapestry

Wool , polyester, linen and cotton yarn, strips of wool fabric on linen warp

Mounted on a stick from the garden

9″ x 12″

It was fun to make this piece, I started not knowing what I was going to weave, which happens almost every time I start a small tapestry. Suddenly a tree and flowers appeared, the mountains in the back got natural as I worked.

Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2020

Needle felting

Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric

Mounted on a 5″ hoop

Framed

Peonies are one of my favorite flowers, so full of color they can be all kind of tones of pink, red, whites.. I was so much fun to make them from a bunch I collected in our garden. Hope that you like it!

Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2020

Needle felting

Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric

Framed

4″ x 8″

Fun to make sunsets in felting, playing with the colors. Practicing a different way of felting without needles, just putting the fibers one on top of the other, and pressing all with the glass of the frame, interesting effects, you never know how the fiber is going to be.

Designed by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2020

Rug hooking, needle felting and painting

Hand dyed wool roving, hand dyed wool fabric, markers

Mounted on a canvas

6″ x 6″

This is a #kdmstudio30daychallenge that I did. It was fun because each day I had to make something about the day. So one day I made bread, the other I found lilies, another I was sleepy, and so on. I used markers to paint some of it, rug hooking, needle felting. The difficult part was to put everything together, as I had started randomly. But it worked, one part is me and my heart and food and the rest is our house with flowers and a waterfall and rain. You have to imagine all!

It was made during the #coronavirusquarantine, so that is all!