Keeper of the Flame.....

A thought....a hazy vision....some clay, some tools, fabric, mosaic tiles.....a new piece appears. What is her story?

in her hand she holds a tiny half egg that I found in the forest.  I sealed it, preserved it, reinforced it, painted, and embellished it and attached a flame.  Perhaps she is saying that within us all lies the flame of creation, of transformation, of new beginnings....

Starting a new piece....

I love that I work in Fantasy art.....what the heck are those things on her eyes?  Who knows! :) I work in Fantasy art!

Creating a Shrine......

I am offering an online class on creating a personal
"Shrine". These are wonderful pieces to create.
You can create a Shrine for many reasons...you can use it as a focus of your intention to create art...or to honor another...or yourself.

You will learn mosaic and embellishment techniques using apoxie sculpt and glass tiles. Also taught will be my step by step techniques for sculpting and painting the face and for creating a really unique
"soft and other-wordly" finish to that face.

In this class, you will have an opportunity to create a work of art that is beautiful, meaningful and very personal.
To read more on the Shrine class, go to That Creative Place.
Hope to see you there! :)

Making little hearts.....

I'm making little clay valentines for 7 little girls.....

Little polymer clay hearts that fit into a larger heart.
The inside heart will have a little loop and ribbon on it so they can wear my love around their necks.

Wrapped in gossamer threads...

Here is the little mermaid babe....wrapped in silver threads of antique netting......I love the energy of these old fabrics.
I love imagining where they were worn and who might have worn them, so long ago.

Tomorrow I will have photos of the completed piece that I now call...."Siren's Lullaby".

A Mer-baby is born....

This little mermaid babe will be held in the Siren's hands....

A Shy Rabbit.....

My White Rabbit is refusing to face the camera! He says that he will only turn around on Oct.27th for the Durwaigh Show, so look for him, in all his glory, then!

This "Wonderland lies Within" piece has been so much fun. What I love the most about this piece are the found object embellishments that found their way into his costume and onto his body.....the coral for his fur...fabulous red seeds that drop on the dirt road that runs behind the house....the French handwritten journal pages with the date 1882....and his fun shredded scarf that I think maybe is part of an old fishing net....and the pine tree needles that I used for Alice's hair.
I love the challenge of thinking outside of the box.

And now onto my mermaid. The paints used on her are acrylics done in washes. I've only painted her face and her hands as the rest of her...her arms, torso and tail will all be layered with embellishments.....both fabric and ...oh, who knows what will show up! So her body, tail and arms are just sort of sketched in right now.
I think she will be holding a baby mermaid coming out of a small shell.

Alice........

Here is my little Alice in "Wonderland lies Within"......

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!