This little purrmaid figurine started with a basic form that I sculpted from Super Sculpey.
I cured the base in the oven before adding the colored clay so I could work without smooshing the details.
Animals are my favorite subjects, and nothing is more fun for me than working on animals wearing fancy clothes. This classy lady is “Take 2” on a piece I did earlier this summer called Jazz Hands. The original sold already so I figured the idea was a good one. This finished work is now available…
This is a “Gothic Rabbit” sculpture that I created last year is one of my first 3-d sculpts. Yet from the moment of her “birth,” I felt she was unfinished. She lacked that spark of life. I couldn’t really put my finger on the problem. Of course, there is the obvious limitations in my sculpting ability, but I think that the key to “life” in art lies in something deeper than technical proficiency. Read more about searching for emotion in art
Even though we’ve had a windchill of -10 the past few days, I’ve been thinking spring. This week I finished up a little yellow bird ornament. Maybe he will do a better job than that groundhog in ushering in spring. And yes, I saw our forecast for tomorrow. Not looking good. It may take him…
My Great-Grandma used to tell my sister and me this old German fable about a couple of sly foxes that broke into a chicken coop on dark, rainy evening. It was a cautionary tale of gluttony, but we wanted her to tell it over and over again. In the tale, the foxes squeezed into a…
My mother gave me a bunch of adorably tiny terra cotta pots. I’m experimenting on how to use them for little story vignettes. I thought I would do a simple kitty sitting in quiet contemplation to warm up my creative juices before moving into more complicated scenes. Simply Sweet Sitting Kitty “Sitting Kitty” is the…
The Halloween countdown has begun! today’s project witch fingers: add antiquing to fingers – check! add earring and necklace findings to small ones – in progress
