Build the subject from a small set of matte cut felt shapes layered on a felt ground, with visible edge stitches and soft fiber edges; keep details broad enough to remain credible as cut felt. Big shapes only: silhouette, pose, proportions, large color areas. Below fingertip scale use only cut felt edges, seams and overlaps; translate every visible surface into felt and cloth pieces. Eyes and nose, where present, are felt-and-cloth shapes with one cloth-made highlight. Felt fiber and seam texture visible everywhere. No photographic detail, printed outlines, photo bits or text.
Tall 9:16 frame. The side of a small cream house with a slate-blue roof, in felt: rain falls from a grey felt cloud onto the roof, runs down into a blue gutter along the eave, drops through a vertical downpipe, and enters a round wooden rain barrel at the foot of the wall, whose water surface is a lighter blue felt disc with two ripple stitches. Two blue felt raindrops hang from the gutter's end. The house fills the middle of the frame, the cloud sits at the top and the barrel at the bottom, all on a pale green felt ground.
Cream house walls, slate-blue roof, mid blue gutter and pipe, honey-brown barrel with dark staves stitched around it, and visible edge stitches around every shape. The house and barrel are plain and unlettered.
