Hine Mizushima's Felt Creations

Today's artist is Hine [Hee-neh] Mizushima. She was born and raised in Japan, where she later received a degree in traditional Japanese painting, then worked as an illustrator. She primarily creates miniature felt crafts, but also enjoys making stop-motion films, drawing, taking pictures, and surfing the internet. A girl after my own heart! 

Her felt crafts are adorable and detailed! They're whimsical, bright, and slightly creepy sometimes, but I love that! Her most common themes include little female figures with button eyes, octopuses/squids, mushrooms, and cats. Her projects utilize many felt-crafting techniques with raw wool and sewn wool sheets, and also include many miniature items like needles, toothpicks, and glass jars, as props for the figures.

She has also made a few stop-motion music videos for They Might Be Giants!

Hine sells some of her crafts on Etsy, where she was previously a featured seller. She has many original hand-crafted miniatures, buttons, pictures, and phone cases up for sale! Go check them out. :D She's also pretty active on Facebook and posts pictures of her crafts-in-progress, food, and her kitty!

Thank you, Ms. Mizushima for allowing me to use your images for this post! みずしまさん、このポーストのための写真を使うこと許可、ありがとうございます！