I just finished this little red fox this morning. He stands at 5 inches tall ears included. I did something a little different with this one. His fur is light brown baby alpaca that has been hand-dyed with onion skins. The onion skins gave his fur a nice orangish gold color.
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He's precious Robin!! Such a sweet face, and I love his bushy tail. I've never heard of dying alpaca with onion skins - how interesting.
Wow! You do amazing things! I am fascinated by your art!
Thanks Fiver & Betty :-)! I used to dye Easter eggs with onion skins. I just recently found out that it is fairly colorfast. So I decided to give it a try with the alpaca. It takes heat and some vinegar to make sure that it is set properly. The white wool that I dyed ended up with a rosey flesh colored hue. The only problem with onion skins is that the color may vary from one dye lot to the next. Most of the time, it's kind of a golden yellow.
I volunteered at some wildlife centre feeding and playing with the little fox there. She exactly looked like your fox. I think that the colour changes are the interesting thing about natural dyes. I thought about trying it myself but chickened out because it's a lot of work.
Awesome! Looks just like the guy I had running through my yard yesterday! :)
He is beautiful! I am so picky about how people make red fox... usually they end up looking wrong and badly proportioned... but this guy... exquisite!
The both of you are truly amazing.
Love him. Onion skins, hmmm, I am going to have to try them, what a gorgeous color.
Wonderful fox Robyn...he's a very handsome fox indeed!
Don't you just love onion skins? They give a quite a varied finish when dying, depending on the type of onions...I love experimenting with them.
Warmest Hugs,
Sandi @ Bearly Sane
I read that if you use different mordants that will change the color, too. Chrome will usually give a color like the one I got. I think it dyed that color because of all the minerals in this desert water.
So real looking.
I have been to visit your blog several times, but from my other computer I cannot post at all to embedded comments. I would suggest changing to half page or full page, because this is a common problem. It is at settings, comments, with a save at the bottom of the page.
Hi Leedra, I changed it to the pop-up window and now it's not working good for me. I guess I'll have to play around with it.
Your felted creatures are charming and adorable! Love the mice and the fox especially! Thank you.
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