Sometimes it's later......

The nature of online classes is such that everyone works at their own pace. Therefore, I get these happy surprises long after a class is finished and I may even have forgotten about it. Then I am so proud of the student's perseverance!

This vibrant Sun Healing Doll is by Sue Kuworski. Makes me happy just looking at her!

Icon Dolls

These are my newly created Moon and Sun Icon dolls.

Metal, clay, handmade paper, and various embellishments. 8 1/4"

Eye Candy

"Grown"

This intriguing piece is by Amy Gross, mixed media artist.

Embroidery Thread, Ribbon, Yarn, Seed Beads, Digitally Printed Fabric, Polymer Clay, Paper, Trapunto, Applique, Sewn to Sphere

www.amygross.com

Steampunk Doll

Here is the completed Steampunk doll by the talented Linda Morgan. Great job, Linda!

A Series, Perhaps

Meet my newly completed "Sacredotisa de selva" or jungle priestess. She is wrapped in wool felt over an armature, and embellished with hand spun fibers, velvet leaves, embroidery, beads. She carries a monkey fetish hanging from her belt.
With her arms spread wide, she leans back in exuberance, welcoming her audience.

Stop Fighting With It

All I know for certain is that I set out to create a goddess of lightning. Actually, I was quite excited to finally have time to bring this idea I've had for several months to life.

Simple enough....I had the idea and the materials.. but,
the lightning goddess would not emerge. When I figured out my bad mood was due to my fighting with this, I stopped. Fighting with what should be joyful doesn't make good sense. This figure whom I call "Heart Dancer" emerged...quickly, as if she wanted to be born and was just waiting for me to allow it. I like her very much....and, perhaps, it will be time for the lightning goddess to emerge. Art, and all of life, is so much easier when one stops fighting with it.

Wonderful, Whimsical Heads

These heads, sculpted without a mold, were created by one of the students in the Steampunk Doll class, Linda Morgan. She is definitely a star pupil! :-) She said that she knew she was on the right track when she was placing them into the oven and her husband said they looked scary.

A Warhol Challenge

This piece is by Bill Flowers, one of the very creative and wonderfully funny artists participating in the Andy Warhol challenge at http://debcompany.ning.com

Had Warhol been living in Australia, he might very well have created just this image. :-)

Update from the Studio

Things here are calming down after a frenzy of activity. I had only one week to do a 19 page scrapbook for a cat rescue organization...and it became somewhat of a slog after the first few pages, probably because there was no time to make it a bit different.....I don't much care for traditional. Still, I was pleased with the layout of the final product. Here you see part of Sophie's page. (I adopted Sophie from this organization.)

Georgina Diaz and I began the Steampunk Doll class, and after I clean the studio up a bit and get caught up with those mundane chores which life requires, I am back in the studio...hopefully, to experiment! That's the plan: A long hot summer of experimentation.

P.S. Cat-Lady found a buyer. I am shipping her tomorrow.

Congratulations, Linda!

The winner of the drawing for free tuition to the online Steampunk Doll class is Linda of purplecatcards@cox.net Congratulations! (Contact me right away)

I extend a sincere invitation to everyone who did not get lucky this time to sign up for the class.
It is only $30!

Online Steampunk Doll Class Offer!

This is the ONLY chance to take this class. It will not be repeated.





This is the final class until winter!

Taught by Georgina Diaz and me, this class runs from June 5 - June 28. You will learn to understand "Steampunk", to sculpt a clay head without using a mold, and to fashion this funky, fun figure....with your own personal touches, of course! $30

Monday, June 1st, I will draw a name for a free class. All you need to do is post this class on your website or blog and send me the link to it in the comments.

Memorial Day

The medal on the left was created by Pamela Huntington

Memorial Day commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service.

First enacted to honor Union soldiers of the American Civil War, it was expanded after World War I to include American casualties of any war or military action.

Memorial Day was formerly known as Decoration Day.

If Memorial Day was all about you and your art, how would you like to be remembered?

Wolf Icon

There's no greater joy for me than to lend my hands to the mysterious process of art. This piece made itself today right here in my studio.

Art Is Everywhere

Whether God or man-made, art is everywhere, if we just SEE it. Yesterday I had a leisurely play-date with a friend, and so I was "forced" out of my usual element. The thought occurred to me that we become blind to that which we look at every day. I'll bet that if you took a group of artists and sent them to each other's neighborhoods with a camera, they all would come back with astonishingly beautiful images.