Creating Vintage Inspired Snowmen

I’ve been away sooo long from my blog. I’ve been busy making things and rarely come up for air. I need to learn to balance my time better. Wonder if that will ever happen? Anyway, I was hoping to share some of my latest creations. I love vintage style Christmas items and I love snowmen. Whenever it snows I’m outside ready to build a snow person to guard my door or just hang out, but since it doesn’t snow enough for me here in Asheville, I’ve decided to make paper mache sculpted snowpeople. It’s a lot warmer sculpting these little guys and I can drink hot chocolate and watch holiday movies while I’m creating them. Maybe now I might not miss the snow as much.

Here are a a few of them, I’ll post more of them soon.

17 Oct
2010

Posted in: Art, creativity, Musings
By moonlit studio

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Creative is a Verb

I have art in Patti Digh’s newest book, Creative Is A Verb. I am over the moon with joy. It is truly a dream come true for me. Thank you, Patti and Mary Norris, Patti’s wonderful editor at Globe Pequot Press.

I love this book! It is full of beautiful essays with creative applications to real life challenges, intertwined with ideas and prompts to live a more creative life, and brimming with an inspiring well of creative challenges and exercises. Creative is a Verb is a guidebook for the creative soul that lives inside each and every one of us.

I’d like to share my creative process of illustrating the two essays I was assigned, in a later post. It was a great experience, and one that I’d love to do more often. But, for now, I just wanted to share my news.

Check it out…and look for my art on pages 165 and 111.

22 Sep
2010

Posted in: Art, creativity, Musings, Uncategorized, Works in Progress
By moonlit studio

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Musings on polymer clay

I have begun a new creative endeavor that has me hooked. It all began because I had sketchbooks full of designs that I had hoped to create in ceramic and pmc. However, my budget just isn’t allowing for that right now. So after sitting on these ideas way too long, I thought about trying polymer clay. This isn’t my first venture with this medium. I mostly used it previously to sculpt out faces and objects to incorporate into mixed media work. When I was a kid, I used it to create food and objects for my dollhouse. That was in the ’70s, when I only had white sculpey. But you know what…some of those items are still intact, albeit crudely made by my 10 year old hands.

Well, after realizing that this may be a way to actually bring my designs to fruition, (at least temporarily, until I can afford the kiln that would allow me to create the ceramic and pmc pieces) I am finding myself completely enchanted with this lovely medium. The versatility and range of polymer clay is exceeding my expectations. I am creating all sorts of designs in the clay, and having success. The ideas are flowing.

Here is a small sampling of what I have started to play with, I’m learning how to make molds out of my sculptures, The pods are fashioned after my pod people paintings. I can’t wait to finish these.