{"id":11863,"date":"2019-05-14T09:03:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T08:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=11863"},"modified":"2019-05-10T13:41:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T12:41:59","slug":"akhenatens-face-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/14\/akhenatens-face-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Akhenaten’s Face – Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Needlefelted<\/a>
Needlefelted Faces<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As you may recall, my last attempt at a face for Akhenaten<\/a> wasn’t entirely successful, so I started again… This time I needlefelted the shapes very fiercely (which I enjoyed more than I expected to!) until they were quite solid and strongly shaped, only to discover that they were far too deep and I had to saw off the back half with a penknife!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Another<\/a>
Another Face Attempt<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Then I stretched another fragment of silk over the top and worked the features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you consider how deep the eyesockets are in the felt, I’m a bit surprised that the eyes on this version don’t appear more deep-set, but he does have nice heavy brows, and the rest of the features aren’t too bad..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The face is also as narrow as it appears in that purple watercolour<\/a> from a couple of weeks ago, so I felt quite optimistic when I turned back to the frame he sits on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Too<\/a>
Too Narrow A Face<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

However, you can’t say that this face is much better than the apoplectic trumpeter – it has turned out by far too narrow for the space left for it, and I suspect that the detached buttonhole stitch with return used for the wig has done too much damage to the fabric to take it out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So this is not the one to use, and I have to try again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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As you may recall, my last attempt at a face for Akhenaten wasn’t entirely successful, so I started again… This time I needlefelted the shapes very fiercely (which I enjoyed more than I expected to!) until they were quite solid and strongly shaped, only to discover that they were far too deep and I had… Continue Reading Akhenaten’s Face – Again<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[193,155,35],"class_list":["post-11863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams-of-amarna","tag-akhenaten","tag-dreams-of-amarna","tag-stumpwork","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11863"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11901,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11863\/revisions\/11901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}