Musings

Saturday musings~~
Sometimes it's fun to do something just for the fun of it! My Red Hat Egg Lady is from an online class with Kathryn Walmsley and she really isn't an egg. She's an egg-shaped gourd the size of an extra large chicken egg. Her face is sculpted in paper clay and her hair is apoxie sculpt, as are her legs. She was too shy to lift her skirt for the photo, but she's wearing a beaded bikini under her tutu with beaded fringe you can just see peeking out under there.
She's pretty smug about her risque outfit..........

Musings

Okay, I discovered how to do this! Here are photos of my Victorian Rabbit from an online class with Sherry Goshon. She's made of doe suede and stands alone without the aid of an armature. Her blouse is made from an antique petticoat I've had in my stash for a long time waiting for just the right project on which to use it. Her apron is from a linen hand towel I've had for awhile, as well.
Isn't that a sweet gentle face? It's a face mold created by Sherry which I covered with doe suede and painted with watercolor pencils and blushed and highlighted with decorator chalks. Such fun!!! I have white velvet to make another rabbit, but who knows when I'll find the time to do that!

Musings

If I can figure out how to add photos to this page again, I'll show you a couple of things I've finished since I last posted.

Catching up

Well not really catching up. Just getting back to the blog. I've been working more in clay this winter. I've loved my cloth dollmaking, but missed working in clay after having been a potter for several years. It's so much nicer working in polymer and air-dry clays, less mess, shorter and less labor intensive finishing times, etc. And less studio space required for working, too.
And I did another egg! Grasshoppa(Jeff) had a challenge for his students, and wonder of wonders, my egg won! How surprising and how nice! I received a lovely crystal bowl on a golden stand as first prize and some nice encouragement from the judge....and Jeff. I hope to do more eggs soon.
But my first love this winter has been the sculpting. Working with some online friends, learning as we go, has been very motivating. I've taken a couple of online classes and hope to have the results from those classes to show soon. I work slowly, but I work!!!!