Scorpio or Virgo? Personality Crisis Averted

After last night’s brouhaha over revised astrological charts and an additional new zodiac sign with a challenging pronunciation, I found myself a little peevish over the loss of my Scorpio sign. “But…I’ve been a Scorpio for as long as, hmmm–how long exactly? Oh yea, since I was born!” I thought to myself, “now what? Can I even live up to the Virgo sign?” The very thought of creating neat ordered lists and organizing everything in my life made me seriously doubt it.

Well, it appears that the confusion was short-lived. It turns out that this newest revision apparently is not the zodiac most of us actually follow here in the US. The media was just having its way with us. Imagine. Apparently, after doing a little research I found that we follow a Western tropical zodiac as opposed to the Eastern sidereal zodiac. Since the Western chart follow the equinoxes there are no new changes. The Eastern zodiac follows the constellations and changes with planetary shifts; therefore they gain the new sign. Thankfully, for those of us who are set in our ways and follow the Western Zodiac, no worries, we retain our current zodiac status.

Phew, that was a close one, no need to change my personality after all –and I was just starting to make a list.

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.