These are the two of the qualities I wanted my mushrooms to have – a sense of sponginess and sometimes a little oddness in the shapes.
I also very much wanted a concave underside for the cap – that has been the biggest struggle in creating the patterns and process . I didn’t want to make something realistic or botanical, not this time anyway, but I did want a great deal of mushroom-ness. Mushroom strangeness. Also contributing to mushroom-ness, I hope, are the curvy stems and tilted caps – impossible balance but for stem bottoms weighted with glass bead fill thanks to a tip from abby glassenberg.
It’s marvelous stuff. It is also magical stuff- pretty and sparkly and there is some delight and ceremony in taking out the wooden box I keep it in and spooning a bit into the stem.
There are new Fortuny toad stools too- I’ll show you those and more new things from that collection tomorrow.
beautiful. you perfectly captured the form of the boletes i look for in summer… especially the curve under the cap. really cool!
Love them! And Abby is such a guru, isn’t she? 🙂
Absolutely love them! Especially glad that you were able to accomplish the curve under the cap, since it sure makes them look so shroomy. Great job and I know they will sell real well for you.
I use crushed recycled rubber, it has a nice weight unfortunately I can only get it from the Netherlands.
I would like the pattern for your latest toadstools please. Can’t find it on your web.