Pandora and the Seven Sins....new online class!

Meet Pandora!  And meet her Seven Sins!

This really fun, really big class has just been opened at That Creative Place, online school.

In this class you will learn how to sculpt and paint Pandora and each of her Seven Sins.  It is really fun to capture the expressions of Gluttony, Pride, Anger, Lust, Greed, Envy and Sloth.

You will also learn to use a gourd as Pandora's body and the container for the Sins. And how to use a lazy susan as a display turntable.

The Sins can sit on the rim of the turn table, or you can place them within her body.....and then reach in and choose your sin for the day!  In this one class, you will learn about apoxie sculpt, collage, painting and sculpting technique, application of fabric, crackle glaze, and embellishments. 

And of course, once the Sins have been removed, Hope remains.  Do you see her there?

Here are the pile of Sins...funny little creatures, sure to make you laugh!  Come join me for this really fun class and create for yourself, a masterpiece.  The class is structured to allow you to go at your own speed, to join the group or just to follow the detailed instructions and photos on your own.  For more information, go here: That Creative Place

Art Doll Quarterly, Spring Issue

I'm so thrilled to see my Pandora and the Seven Sins piece in the Spring issue of ADQ!

The article is one I wrote on what it's like to teach an online class and a bit about what actually goes on and how it works.   A new Pandora class will be beginning, online, at the end of February.

It's quite an involved piece....we work with a gourd, sculpt, paint, do mosaic work, costume, work with paper and hardeners, create a base on a turntable and practice sculpting expressions while creating each of the seven sins.  But there's no time limit to creating and having fun with this piece.  Take as long as you wish......I'm always there for any questions or comments or help in any way.  And it's a fun piece to have around, as you can choose your Sin for the day!

If anyone wants to join in, it's being offered through That Creative Place!  

Oh boy!  :)

The energy is building......

The energy is beginning to build for my online class on Pandora and the Seven Sins.

I love this part....the anticipation....the gathering of supplies...the free flying of vision and inspiration before the creating begins.

We have a great forum set up, online, where participants post photos and/or ask questions and I...or anyone in the class...can respond.  

So far there's been a discussion between New Zealand, California and England.  

Isn't that just amazing!.....it's like we have entered a magical world where one gains access through one's fingertips, on the transportation of the internet....a world where time and space have lost their meaning.    A world where we are friends and neighbors, even though we are physically so far apart.  We are connected by the love of creating and a vision that moves us.

And I've just packed up Pandora and her Seven Sins to ship her off to the magazine, Art Doll Quarterly to photograph for an article on the creating of her, and what online teaching is like.

So this is a special class that will also be written up in a great magazine.

The class begins on September 20th, so there's still plenty of time to sign up if you are interested.   The more, the merrier.....as the saying goes!

Two Sins ...Lust and Anger

It's so fun creating these Sins.  :)   

I look into a mirror and scrunch my face into feeling whatever emotion I am making, and I then try to interpret that into the sculpt.

I love the big red lips on Lust.

Tomorrow....maybe Envy or Gluttony.... :)

Here are Lust and Anger....so fun!