Faces in the Mist

 This weeks creation (mum screamed when she saw it, it's not that freaky is it?!) is a needle felt face framed by a plethora of french knots, random stitches, silk shading and couching focusing on tone and texture. I'm not really sure what my inspiration for this was, other than a desire to practice my felt faces, except that a few days ago we studied this guy in biology:

and I think he might have nestled himself into a more gruesome part of my subconscious because I didn't see the link until someone else pointed it out.

TOP: Close-ups and process images of my

definitely-not-gruesome-I-hope felt face. I particularly proud

of the silk shading in the eyeballs

even though it isn't very clear in the

pictures

BOTTOM: (from wikipedia)The Tollund Man is the naturally mumified corpse 

 of a man who lived during the 4th century BC,

during the time period characterised in Scandinavia

as the Pre-Roman Iron Age.He was found in 1950

buried in a peat bog on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark,

which preserved his body. 

Such a find is known as a bog body.The head and face

were so well-preserved that he was mistaken at the 

time of discovery for a recent murder victim.