Felt art picture NOSTALGIA

http://www.etsy.com/listing/113596337/felt-art-picture-nostalgia-summer

I walk around here somewhere ...  

Augusta river is nearby. I hear her noise!  

I see the blueness of the Balkan Mountains in the distance... 

Poplars, rural road ...
Smells of hay!




http://www.etsy.com/listing/113596337/felt-art-picture-nostalgia-summer

Meadow full of butterflies, buzzing bees and birdsong from the nearby trees.
Sweet buzz ...
 
I'm still there ...

  Everything is so real!

Holidays in my village, grandparents, endless summer days, sweet dreams ...

Everything!
 
Its still alive!

In me!

 

Artist: Svetlana Kostova - LAnAArt.

SIZE: 43 x 34 cm = 16,9 x 13,4 inches,
thickness at about 5 mm = 0,2 inches.
Bulgarian wool, felt technique. Wet felting watercolor (aquarell).
It is created of different types of wool, most of them I have dyed own by hand. Some of the colors I've dyed with extract of natural leaves.
Others are in the wool's natural brown, grey and white shades.

The wool painting is signed by me by needle felting of my sign in the lower right corner (this can be seen in the first picture).

HANGING AND EXHIBITING IDEAS:
This art work can be used as wall hanging (wall pannel) or framed picture.
Very appropriate, this picture to be framed in a volumetric frame with or without glass. Appropriate framework, for example, can be found in IKEA stores.
I offer the picture unframed.



CLEANING METHODS:
You can just clean the dust, if the picture is exhibited without glass. There is no need of often washing or cleaning.
In case of need you can wash it by hand.
Please, have in mind that hand wash is permissible by gentle washing agents suitable for wool. After washing, please rinse well and add some vinegar (at about 1 table spoon vinegar in 1 lt water) at last rinsing.
Please, press out the water after that carefully by hand. Please, do not twist! Absorb excess water with a cotton towel. Let dry free on air.
Please, do not dry in a dryer!

SHIPPING:
I send the goods via Registered Priority Air Mail and they have a tracking number, which you can check and see its status and movement here: http://www.track-trace.com/

If you have any questions about this my work, please feel free to ask.

Svetlana Kostova - LAnAArt

http://svetlanaarts.blogspot.com/
 

Artistic round felted wool floor carpet NEW EARTH

The Earth is our Mother, our cradle and our protector!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/93668980/unique-round-floor-carpet-new-earth

The Earth builds and feed our bodies and our senses with unimaginable wealth of colors, sounds, tastes and scents!





 

 

 

World of Earth's forms is eternal source of inspiration!

We humans are what we are thanks to the Earth!  

 

She is not just our home - the Earth and we are One!
 

She is ours, but we belongs to her, along with all that fulfills her and inhabits!

 

 

http://www.etsy.com/listing/93668980/unique-round-floor-carpet-new-earth

 
All together!

United like all these balls, like pieces in the puzzle drawing colorful picture, where every piece is unique and necessary!


Our dreams and our energy create the new reality - new Earth under the new Sky!

Love in Action!

 



 

Many of my creations are inspired by Earth!

 



Ecological materials, natural colors and dyes!

 

 

 

This unique floor carpet named NEW EARTH I made of wool in pastel dreamy colors in needle felt technique.

The carpet has a rough surface coming from the numerous balls that create a sense of thousands of points or stones collected from all around the world and united like pieces of beauty, like people connected with Love!

This artwork I finished in February 2012 for my last solo exhibition art textiles called "Land of Dreams" and exposed in the Historical Museum - Botevgrad, Bulgaria.
More about the exhibition you can see here:
http://felt-filz-culture.blogspot.com/2013/10/remembering-my-solo-felt-art-exhibition.html .
 

 

Diameter: 1,10 m = 43,3 inches approximately.
Thickness: between 2 and 5 cm = 0,79-1,97 inches.
Please note, that the balls are very good felted, they are hard, dense and thick - almost double thicker than usually make them!

The carpet is created of raw (wild) wool, most of them I have dyed own by hand. Others are in the wool's natural white, grey and brown shades. Some other colors I've dyed with extract of natural leaves.
Making the rug took me several weeks to create art projects, dyeing wool and hard work to make a big, hard balls and unite them all together in round shape.
Only the arrangement of the balls and stringing them took me a week!
Handmade by me own.
The balls are strung together with jute twine.

You can combine this art piece with this one I gave a name Earth meadow or Land of Dreams2: http://www.etsy.com/listing/83097273/land-of-dreams-unique-felt-wool-art-work

Cleaning methods:
Clean the dust when necessary. You can use vacuum-cleaner.
But there is no need for frequent washing! Once per year or two years (or even more) is enough!
Please, have in mind that you can wash this carpet only with clean water, if there is no dirty stains. Natural wool, such this one, has self clean ability and there is no need of detergents!
You can wash by hand in the bathtub or in the yard with plenty of running water.
Please, have in mind that the wet wool increased its weight that complicated the process. Before lifting or moving the wet carpet, wait for the water to drain better than thereof - this is important!

But if you decided to use washing agent, hand wash is permissible by gentle washing agents suitable for wool.

Finally good rinse of detergent. In the last rinsing you can add some vinegar in the water to neutralize the remnants of soap.
Allow carpet to drain well.
Please, do not twist! The rest of the water in the wool balls absorb gently with cotton towels.
Dry on a flat surface - for example, on pavement or grass.
Dry only on the horizontal surface and do not hang up!
Please, do not wash in washing machine!
Please, do not dry in the dryer!

There is no need of frequently washing or cleaning!

If you have any questions about this my work, please feel free to ask.

Sincerely,

Svetlana Kostova - LAnAArt

СПОМНЯЙКИ СИ МОЯТА САМОСТОЯТЕЛНА ИЗЛОЖБА НА ХУДОЖЕСТВЕН ТЕКСТИЛ - ПЛЪСТИ, НАРЕЧЕНА "ЗЕМЯ НА МЕЧТИ"

ИЛИ КАКВО Е ДА ИМАШ МЕЧТИ?!

 

 

Подготовяйки се за изложба през ноември 2013 г. в град Варна, България, си спомних моята трета самостоятелна изложба на художествен текстил, състояла се в началото на 2012 г. в Исторически музей - Ботевград.
 

Иска ми се отново да ви разкажа всичко, което съм чувствала и желала да покажа на посетителите чрез моето изкуство.

Нека да направим отново тази разходка заедно!

Нека си спомним, какво е да имаш мечти!
 

 

Обичате ли да мечтаете?

Нямате време за това?! 

А може би сте забравили, как се прави?

Искате ли, да си върнете усещането за блаженство и безметежност, присъщо на този процес?

Тогава, нека заедно да направим едно пътешествие назад във времето, когато бяхме деца.

Спомняте ли си онова сладко полусънено състояние, когато лежейки в леглото се пробуждате.

Сънят още не ви е напуснал напълно, тялото е блажено отпуснато...

Там, в стаята ви, има един прозорец.

В него има късче небе, защото такива са прозорците - в тях винаги трябва да има късче небе! 

И така, прозорецът гледа небето с вашите очи.
Вие примижавате, защото светлината, ярка и прекрасна, нахлува през тях.

И тогава се случват чудеса.

Малки цветни кръгове танцуват върху миглите ви, сливат се и се разделят, порастват или се смаляват...

Феерия от цвят и светлина!

Любувате ѝ се...

Времето спира.

Съществува само играта на Светлината...

После отваряте очите си по-широко и тогава забелязвате облачетата, които плуват в синевата на небето.

Можете да разпознаете в тях нечие лице или да видите сладка животинка.
Формите се сменят толкова бързо, а вие изпитвате едно сладко блаженство.

Светът е толкова прекрасен!

Виждате дървото до прозореца и се усмихвате. Чувате птичките, които весело чуруликат...

Спомнихте ли си?!

Да!!! Ето, виждате ли!
А това тук са моите спомени, моите мечти!

А знаете ли, че мечтите стават реалност - онези истинските, чистите, излезли от блаженството на сърцето! Всяко дете го знае!

Пребивавайте повече в това състояние и тогава животът ви наистина ще се превърне в една красива сбъдната мечта!

С любов към всички вас!

СветЛанА Костова

ЛАнААрт

http://svetlanaarts.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

P.S. This article you can read here in English language:

http://felt-filz-culture.blogspot.com/2013/10/remembering-my-solo-felt-art-exhibition.html 



 

REMEMBERING MY SOLO FELT ART EXHIBITION "LAND OF DREAMS''

 

Now I'm preparing for an exhibition in November 2013 in city Varna, Bulgaria. There, along with three other artists in the field of ceramics and small sculptures I'll show my textile art. Some of the works have already participated in group exhibitions and my solo exhibitions, but there will be new ones. So I decided to publish in my blogs series of articles dedicated to my work, which will participate in this exhibition. Some of my works you've seen on the internet or in person. My felt art carpets and wall hangings created in the 2009-2013 year reflect my creative pursuits and experiences that prompted me to do exactly that, to express myself in exactly that way.

They are the fruit of a great love and the state to be who I am :)

 

So, remembering my third solo exhibition of art textiles held in 2012 in the Historical Museum Botevgrad, Bulgaria I'd like to tell you, what I felt and wanted to show to the visitors.

Let's make this walk together again! Let's remember what is to have a dreams!

Do you like dreaming?
 

No time for dreams?

Or maybe you've forgotten how to dream?

 

Do you want to get back the feeling of bliss and serenity inherent to this process?

Then, let us take a trip back through time when we were kids!

Do you remember that sweet sleep state when lying in bed you awaken?

The dream has not left you completely, the body is blissfully relaxed ...

There, in your room, there's a window.

There is a piece of heaven, because such are the windows - they should always have a piece of heaven! 

 

So, the window watches the sky with your eyes.

You are squinting, because the light, such bright and beautiful, rushes through them.
 

And then miracles happen.

 

Small color circles dance on your lashes, merge and divide, grow or shrink ...

Pageant of color and light!

 

Enjoying this ...

... the time stops...

Only the play of light exists...
 

Then you open your eyes wider and notice the small clouds that are floating in the azure of the sky.

You can recognize in them someone's face or see cute animals.

Forms change so quickly, and you feel a sweet bliss.

The world is so wonderful!

You see the tree near the window and smile.
You hear the birds that chirping merrily ...

Do you remember!?
 

Yes! That is, do you see!

And here are my memories, my dreams!
 

Did you know that dreams come true - those real, clean, out of the bliss of the heart, didn't you?!
Every kid knows that!
 

Staying more in this state and then your life will really become a beautiful dream come true!


With love to you all!

SvetLana Kostova
LAnAArt
http://svetlanaarts.blogspot.com/