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WIP Hummingbird Vase...part 14/11/2024 Do you have any gourds in your stash that are so nice that you wait a long time before you do anything with them? Like the ones that just sit and you stare at them and you don't want to mess them up! I have a few of those, and this is one of them. It was a gift from Helen O. from a PAGS holiday luncheon (ahhh two years ago!). This gourd is large (pre-cut) and THICK! And begging to be carved. I am not so much a carver. I carve, but only minimally. So I knew that one some level this will be experimental and I really don't want to ruin this beautiful gourd!
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100 Cats2/22/2024 Or....how to improve your pyrography through sketching. In my most recent video, I talk about a little sketchbook project that I have been doing this year. I decided I wanted to draw a hundred cats in pen and ink, and mostly from life. Click to watch the video and you will also see a few different ways I have found this exercise can be a benefit to your skills in gourd pyrography. Watch to the end for a super cute surprise! Winter Projects1/20/2024 Winter is a perfect time, a quiet time without many outside obligations that lets me reassess, reorganize, and give myself permission to play with art without restraint. No upcoming shows to prepare for allows me to do art and mess up and learn, which we all need to do. It is not enough to find what works and keep doing that thing- this causes stagnation which reflects itself in lack of enthusiasm for showing art.
2024 New Classes!1/20/2024 Upcoming Changes to Online Classes11/2/2023 Trout Diaries10/27/2023 Tam Lin7/13/2023
Gourd Competition Tips5/9/2023 New Bird Series, Gourds and Watercolors.4/27/2023 Are you a bird watcher? I love to watch the birds, but I wouldn’t call myself a birdwatcher- at least not the hardcore bird list kind of bird watcher. Those are the types that are super dedicated, who travel the world to check off a rare warbler off their lifetime list (have you seen The Big Year?) I am more of the "set up 5 bird feeders and baths and wait for them to come to my own yard" kind of birdwatcher. And I have seen a lot of birds this way! Yes, I have traveled a little to see migrating birds, and my family trip last May to Maine did include a boat ride out to Petit Manan island to see the puffins at my request. But I digress- it is because I love to draw them.
In between dealing with catching every virus bug around for the last two months and was probably sick more than well, I did manage to work on this gourd vase. It follows a theme that has been part of an ongoing series of sorts..
About me...Art has always been a part of my life, and I have worked in many different mediums. Archives
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