Description:<\/strong> “La Gioconda,” a felted portrait, draws its name from Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic masterpiece, known for its enigmatic smile. This needle-felted piece is set against a Nuno-felted background featuring misty florals. Although it began as a self-portrait, I now feel it represents my inner self more accurately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While searching for a title, my friend and fellow fiber artist, Fine Gelfand, suggested “La Gioconda,” the Italian name for the Mona Lisa. This felt especially fitting, as I have been captivated by Leonardo da Vinci since childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I started learning needle-felting in 2013, initially creating tiny figures and flowers, then progressing to doll-like figures. In 2015, thanks to some fortunate connections with fiber artists on Whidbey Island, I began to learn wet-felting and Nuno-felting. I started with hollow-form vessels and hats, soon developing an interest in creating felted pictures, beginning with landscapes and later branching into abstract art. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Further exploration led me to study drawing, which added another layer of skill to my felting work. Over the past year, I have developed a keen interest in portraiture, culminating in the creation of my first portrait, “La Gioconda.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kathleen Dodge-DeHaven, Whidbey Weavers Guild Materials & Technique: Nuno- and wet-felted background, needle-felted face and hair: wool, silk, and viscose. Description: “La Gioconda,” a felted portrait, draws its name from Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic masterpiece, known for its enigmatic smile. This needle-felted piece is set against a Nuno-felted background featuring misty florals. Although it began as… Read More »La Gioconda<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25433","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anwgconference.org\/archive\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anwgconference.org\/archive\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anwgconference.org\/archive\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anwgconference.org\/archive\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anwgconference.org\/archive\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anwgconference.org\/archive\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25644,"href":"https:\/\/anwgconference.org\/archive\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25433\/revisions\/25644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anwgconference.org\/archive\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anwgconference.org\/archive\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anwgconference.org\/archive\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/anwgconference.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1043.jpeg\")
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