Joslyn's Wish Comes True!

Joslyn had always dreamed of being a fairy and living among other Fae. She worked hard everyday and tried to do things she felt would please the faerie and maybe one day one would grant her the one wish that meant more to her than anything! One morning after waking she realized that the sun was up at its brightest....had she slept most of the day? Jumping from bed she ran to her closet to get her clothes for the days work when she happened to catch a glimpse in the mirror, OH MY something was different......very, very different! Slowly she returned to the mirror to gasp at what she saw!! She now had WINGS! Her dream had come true! The Faerie had heard her wishes! It was then she noticed the small note sticking out of the mirror frame. As Joslyn read it she began to understand that although she now had wings she also had responsibility to the Fae for granting her this wish. From this day forward her new job would be to love and nourish the pumpkin patch, to help each pumpkin grow to become large pumpkins. Joslyn didn't mind at all, she was extremely happy and so very excited to get to her new job and her new life amongst the faerie!! 

We will have to peak in on her once in awhile to see what adventures she gets herself into with those wings and adjusting to life with the Fae!

Committing to One thing?

Well, it's been a busy couple of weeks and am ALMOST finished with Joslyn. She's a mouse but not just any mouse, she's a fairy mouse and has recently had a wish granted that allowed her to live among the fairy. It's not all play though, she has responsibilities!! She will be in charge of the pumpkin patch and will watch over each pumpkin to make sure that they get all the love and nurturing they need to grow big and strong! Josyln is a bit overwhelmed being that she is just a mouse but she will get through it besides who wouldn't want to be a part of Faerie? So please be patient and stay tuned as we get her all cleaned up and her beautiful wings done! 

The other reason for writing is my mounting problem of trying to focus on one particular thing instead of being all over the place! I love the Fantasy realm and everything I do will most definitely have to do with Fae of some kind but then there are all the pretty jewels, bottles, boxes, adornments that call to me!! I am trying not to become to scattered as I think on my next sculpture but it's becoming more and more difficult lol. I need to come up with a way to incorporate all the things I love into one item........hummmm let me think on that and get back to drawing. Thanks everyone for stopping in and hopefully some new pics very soon!!

Riemi, a WoodSprite

Riemi came about one night while I was looking through a Brian Froud book and began wondering what it would be like to live in a world where things like wood sprites, pixies and such were real.  Picking up some Hazelnut colored clay I began working on my first little wood sprite. He's really sweet and loves to play in the woods where he can blend in naturally with his surroundings. He's very playful and likes to get into things! I am hoping to get him posted to my yahoo groups as well tonight so wish me luck! Riemi will be offered on Etsy as well.

When your job gets in the way of your passion lol

Well first let me say that I do really like my job. I am a tattoo artist by day and try to do my clay in the evenings and days off. This doesn't always work however since being married does require me to pay attention to my partner every once in awhile as well as do a little housework and show some interest in the accumulating dust bunnies that although don't eat much do tend to multiply lol. I recently was reading a Brian Froud book and looking at the art work realizing that I am never going to do "realistic" claywork. My stuff always tends to be towards the cutsie end of things and more fantasy related so.......I am embarking on learning the process of creating more lifelike figurines with a cutsie fantasy look to them. The construction is really something I need to focus on and making sure that I am putting together a product that won't crumble down the road or have an arm fall off during shipping!! Can you imagine! My first attempt is a little wood sprite that I haven't named yet but will be posting pictures probably this weekend sometime. I am currently trying to finish his wings then attaching him to the base I made for him to sit on. Now he's a dark brown, thus the wood sprite and has quite the hat on his head for adornment. I am hoping that as my skill developes I can be a bit more confident in what I am doing. It's always hard for me and at times I have to get up and walk away from the table, then come back the next day to get a fresh look at what I am doing.  Hope everyone is having a great weekend and if you have an art form you love to do, drop me a line and let me know if you go through the same thing at times? Thanks guys! tty this weekend!

Treasure Boxes, Chaucers Sister and Things Forgotten

While working to finish the piece I am calling "Things Forgotten", I became a bit sidetracked and also started a treasure box. This will probably be something I will be making more of and can be used for small trinkets, fairy dust, notes, gift cards, etc. I am really drawn to the make it up as you go thing and incorporating all kinds of things and techniques into one piece. These won't be very big about the size of a gift card box. Once that was finished I went back in to my bigger piece "Things Forgotten" and finished it. I will be mounting this to something to make it more of a picture to display.  THEN, I went to making Chaucer a sister snail and another really small sort of woodland snail.  I have been busy and loving every minute of it.  I do get overwhelmed though at times and have to pull back as there is just so much going on in my head for ideas and just not enough time! lol. I have a couple of tutorials that I purchased and will be working on those very soon. Will post pictures for those when they are finished. Hope you like and most likely a couple of these will find themselves on Artfire or Etsy. Peace.

Things Forgotten

I woke this morning thinking I needed to get to my room to do something with my clay. It's been about 3 days since I worked with it and was feeling the itch to make something. I came across some clay I had mixed and set aside for that "project" that never happened. Now it wasn't that much clay so I began thinking I would make some sort of small vessel and decorate it but I didn't have enough......next think I knew it was 3.5 hours later and this is what I have so far lol. It sort of reminds me of Faerie, perhaps a book cover to a host of exotic elixir recipes or spells? It's not quite finished yet but close and then I will be baking it and antiquing it as well to give it that final touch. Let me know what you think!

There is nothing for me that compares to that feeling of making something like this purely on a whim and getting swept away, loosing track of time and feeling the exhilaration of creating something that makes you happy.

Chaucer Fairy Snail

For those of you who know me I am not good with plants. I tend to over mother them by drowning. I am not sure why I feel so compelled to over water my plants but needless to say it leads to more than a few casualties and I have resorted to cactus in my desperate attempt to try and learn moderation. So far it's been alright, with a near miss with one of my pear cactus looking pretty peaked for a bit then once it began to get more sun and dried out it looks like it's going to make it! lol. In the process though I have made a discovery of a little group of snails. They are really cute but quite mischievous and startled me one morning before my cup of coffee!! I caught this one in a photo for you so you could see he's really cute and he did come with friends! lol Hope you enjoy and we will see who else shows up?