-->

Photobucket


3D Retro Toys Strangecat Toys LIFT Designer Toy Store Unbox Industries Art Toys Soft Vinyl Martian Toys Art Toys Tenacious Toys Designer Toy Store

WHAT'S NEW

Mab Graves's Needle Felted "Dinokitty Kittyrex" Wool Sculpture!

We've fallen in love with pop surrealist painter Mab Graves's strange mixtures of dinosaurs and cats, especially her depiction of a Tyrannosaurus rex with a feline face. In an effort to continue expanding her artistic repertoire, Graves undertook the 30-hour long process of hand-creating the pictured "Dinokitty Kittyrex" in needle felt. For those that don't know, needle felting is the process of using a sharp tool to turn wool strands into 3D objects, using wool's tendency to stick together when agitated. Graves admits that this is "a medium I've been wanting to try since I was a kid," though she describes the experience — in retrospect — as entering a "30-hour, glassy-eyed obsession trance." The result is fantastic, a fresh interpretation of her rapidly becoming iconic design, though — given the lengthy time required to make these — we suspect this will remain a one-of-a-kind work or very rarely be revisited.

No comments