Alpacas and llamas lend themselves well to felted art. The fuzziness of the interlocked wool fibers mimics the coats of these impossibly fluffy creatures (with the most adorable small faces). We’ve seen it before with the needle-felted hoop art of Fuzzy and Flora, and now in the stately portraits of Ernie and Irene. Holly Guertin is the woman behind the tactile portraits that features the faces of sheeps, alpacas, lambs, and more, all on ready-to-hang felt pieces.
To craft her works, Holly uses two techniques in combination. “Wet felting for the base and needle felting for the raised element,” she explains. “It is the result of hours of intricate work to develop a pronounced three-dimensional shape with unique textures and surfaces.”
Holly’s animal portraits are available in the Ernie and Irene online shop. But if llamas aren’t your thing, she also has cacti and other abstract wall hangings.
