A Robin's Egg

This isn't for any particular project. I was just experimenting with pastels on clay and made this.

I haven't had a lot of time to work on art recently, but hopefully that will change in a couple weeks.

A Dancer

This is an old sketch imitating the style of one of my favorite writer/illustrators, Edward Gory.

Well, it's the last day of my post-a-day week! Hopefully this little exercise will help me remember to post more often in future.

Also, thank you so much to everyone who comments on my posts. I love reading the wonderful notes you leave me. After all, feedback is an artist's best friend!

A Mushroom

Why? Because I felt like it.

Polymer clay, 1/2 inch high.

I wish I had some dazzling new bit of artistry to share today, but since I've mainly been working on my mostly-secret sculpture, I don't have a lot of things to post.
So here's a picture of some moss. It's not even real moss. I need convincing moss for the base of my sculpture, so I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to do that today. I even trekked out into the woods to find some so I could compare it to different art supplies and see what would work best.
For the most part the trek was uneventful, but I did walk through a spider web and spend the next seven minutes dancing around and flailing my arms.

So, anyway.... I eventually came up with a technique using a couple different shades of wool roving, as shown above.

Sketching a Fox

Again with the late posting. I know.

So here's a fox. I might finish this sketch, or I might not.

WIP update

Here's a teaser, as promised.


I know it doesn't give much away, but then again, it's not supposed to. ;)

Some Kitties and a WIP Update

So, I realize this is really late, but at least I did post!

Today I spent a lovely hour outside with my ever-photogenic kitties. There are five siblings that like to follow me around, but the ones shown are Weasley (the orange one) and George, (the siamese one). And yes, those are both Harry Potter names.
There was also a butterfly in the garden, so I followed it around and took a few snapshots.

And now for a word on art. My current art doll WIP is a male sculpture that is taking forever. This is mostly because I keep getting frustrated and leaving it for days. Ah, well. I did sculpt today, though, and finished with his ears. I sculpted about seven ears before I was happy with them. I'm choosing to keep my progress mostly to myself on this one, but I may post a teaser photo now and again.

Of Ears and Seashells

Here's the deal. I'm going to post every day this week, come rain, shine, or craft disaster. To kick it off, have a shell and an ear.

The shell I picked up along the river when I was out with friends, and I had to have it for an art piece. I'll probably use it for an art doll of some sort.

The ear is a polymer clay "sketch" that I did a few weeks ago for practice. It's shown next to an earring for scale.

A few random tidbits

I may or may not be the most inconsistent blogger in the world. We'll see. However, to partially make up for such a long silence, I have some pretty cool things to share.

The robot is a drawing in graphite pencil that I did a while back and never posted.

The carnival bag fish is a necklace pendant about 1" tall. I may make more of these for sale.

The dragon ring is made from polymer clay over a wire armature. The more delicate parts are layered in translucent liquid Sculpey, which makes them quite durable and flexible, to avoid breakage. I also hope to make more rings of a similar concept for sale on Etsy or Ebay.