Today I want to share a DIY project on making a wool painting. The image was taken from a watercolor artist Fabio Cembranelli.

You need:

- super thin Merino 18 micron

- cardboard or hardboard - the back frame

- fusible webbing

- glass to cover the painting with at the very end

- scissors, tweezers

- wool of these colours: lemon, yellow, light green, green, dark green, olive, orange or bright yellow, white, blue grey, scarlet, red, bright pink, burgundy or cherry.

Glue fusible webbing on the cardboard. Better to do it on the corners and with a glue pencil. Well, our "paper" is ready!

Moving from the upper left corner to the bottom right corner with mixed stretched strands of wool. To make such strands, pull them out from the tape, width 1-1.5 cm and length 3-4 cm. Don't use too long and narrow strands, they will make loops and ruts.

Try to make the background not too thick, otherwise the glass may not cover it all.

Here basic colors are well visible and the background with yellow-and-orange light and leaves with stems and twigs.

Change the direction of the strands imitating stems and leaves. Stems are painted twisted thin cords. For the manufacture of such coils pull tape with a pattern of green long but thin strand, length 7-8 cm, width 0.5 cm — to make it, stretch it a little and twist.

You see I used red strands at different places — to harmonize the color all around the painting and make it more complex.

The most clear should be the foreground — the nearer flowers.

Paint the flower, emphasize the white colour with dark strands around the contiurs. Correct, if necessary, with the scissors or tweezers.

Gradually add colors: warm for the background, cold at the foreground.

The middle of the white flower is greenish yellow, in the middle — dark green.

You can use a template, just paint the contours on a file and put it on your painting to see if all goes right.

Fix with scissors or tweezers, if something goes wrong.

Start drawing red flowers. Use shades: scarlet, bright pink, white.

It is desirable to use at least 3 shades ifor one object.

Our painting is ready!