Fairy parts.

Can you see her Apoxy skeleton? I'm working on a 14" fairy sculpture at the moment.
Wow, it takes a lot of different art supplies to create her. So far: Apoxy Sculpt for the armature of the body, over wire; cardboard, bamboo skewers, Sculpamold and hot glue gun for the base (her dress); sticky-back vellum, Angelina film, wire, glitter, glitter glue, Gorilla glue for the wings (and a soldering iron); polymer clay, pearl-ex, genesis paint and UV resin for the eyeballs; 2 different kinds of mohair for the wig; PuppenFimo and Cernit for her skin. And I'm not sure yet if I will use actual fabric, or a layer of paperclay and paint for the dress...I'll make that decision once I have her body finished, but I'm leaning toward paperclay. Then there's the lantern- she is a Seeker in the Dark- she is leaning over, holding out a lantern that really lights up. I have a design dilemma to work out, because the lantern has batteries that will need to be changed, and a button that needs to be pressed. So I have to engineer it so it works, lights up, and is removable from the sculpture for maintenance. I'm thinking maybe one of those cigar tins that individual expensive cigars come in, with holes poked in it to let the light out.

Filming Polymer Clay Podcast- crazy times!

I'm in North Florida with Ilysa, and we just filmed the next 12 episodes of Polymer Clay TV...plus, we are putting together 3 new courses on Mixed-Media art and Journalling, and a new library of Polymer Clay videos. And we released Ilysa's kaleidoscope caning to the world via hi-def DVD. Of course, all our video is in Hi-Def these days, since we both picked up new camcorders. It has become fairly inexpensive to get really nice equipment, and ours are Canons, which I consider top of the line. As far as we know, we are the only production company doing only HD video for our instructional videos. We are kicking butt and taking names, as they say, since I am only here for 5 days we have to get a lot done. I've got iMovie, Final Cut, iSquint, and iDvd going at the same time- good thing Ilysa's Mac can take it! We have a whole new video intro (short and sweet), and a new song. And a new site- we are opening ThingsCrafty.com shortly, where we will be promoting Inspirational Craft Journeys through Mixed-Media are and art journalling.
On top of all that, I am having nightmares....I am supposed to find out this coming week if I can go back to my job or not. Crossing fingers...

Texture unexpected.

I've been thinking about what is important to me, what I am passionate about. It's important to stop and think when you are in a stressful situation as I am now. Texture. I am passionate about visual and audio texture. The sound of waves, and the look of them. Likewise with leaves on trees, a scarce commodity in south Florida. Sand, snow, wind, and coral-the bones of the sea. In visiting Texas last weekend, the textures there were dry, flaky, hot...gritty. Green and fertile in the shade. Texture gives meaning to everything. I'd you slow down you will notice the texture of things. Thoughts so thick you could chew them, tastes so wonderful you could roll around in them... I've always said that if it were acceptable, I would bathe in candied sweet potatoes. For the texture, warmth, smell, and taste. Mmmmmmm.

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