Au Revoir Tour de France; Now Back to Work

Every July I lose myself to the Tour de France.  I know it will happen and I accept it.  It is like losing yourself in a good book.  For 21 days I follow the race as it travels through France and the surrounding countries.  Each morning I watch the live coverage and in the evening [...]

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Friday Folly

Along the Royal Mile
Edinburgh, Scotland (2004)
Please to bend down for the one called the Greenman;
forever to him you’re tied. 
Please to dance round for the one called the Greenman;
dressed in the fruits of the wild. 
Lay your head on the Greenman;
build a bed out of oak and pine. -XTC
 

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Talking Stick Art Doll Round Robin: Part 1

The Talking Stick art doll round robin has begun.  Yesterday, Karen, Judy, and I exchanged doll heads in part one of our round robin.  The goal of this first exchange was to create a doll head no longer than 2″.  Color, facial design, and head shape were all up to the artist.
We agreed to ”hide” the doll’s [...]

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Art Date-Peabody Essex Museum

Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys.  To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime. 
Today was an art date to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA.  The PEM is a wonderful museum that has one of the best Asian art collections in the area.  Today’s visit, however, was not for Asian [...]

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Progression-Comparisons

It was fun yesterday to look up some older work and remember how the particular piece was created.  One thing that I noticed in most of the pieces that I chose was an underlying spiritual and/or female/feminine theme.  The spirit doll necklaces have a female-like form and the name itself implies something otherworldly.  The Buddhist Prayer [...]

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Progression-A Look Back

Libby Mills posted a “challenge” on her blog Libzoid to polymer artist bloggers to post some images of past work.  The impetus was an earlier post on Libzoid about the progression an artist makes along the way to new and beautiful pieces.
In the spirit of looking back in order to move forward, I’ve pulled out [...]

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Friday Folly

Forbidden City, Beijing, China (2005)
The ancient building is excused.

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Favorite Sounds

1. Birds chirping in the morning.  Getting up early does have its benefits.
2. Cats purring.
3. Our backyard owl hooting.  He is a Bard owl.  We named him Shakespeare. Get it?
4. Elk bugling. An eerie sound; one you’ll never forget and will miss when you don’t hear it.
5. Peepers in the spring.  You know spring is here when [...]

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Developing a Line of Work

Sometimes it takes a while to develop a line of work.  It is so much fun to experiment and try different techniques.  You want to make one of every thing and you want to try and sell it all.  Yet, when you set up at a show or take your work to the local gallery and [...]

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Heads Up!

As often happens at art retreats, committee members spend a fair amount of time socializing, running the weekend’s activities, and ensuring that attendees are having a good time; clay time is sometimes limited.  Along with three business card cases, I was able to create two new art doll heads and started working on a doll [...]

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