He’s getting his scales done! And he’s become more colorful.
This is what he looked like earlier in the process.
Quetzalcoatl, In Process
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Tag Archives: Sculpture
The Thinker II, for Cellpic Sunday
Food and Foliage, For “Last on the Card”
Eduardo’s Gift
Since I saw him last, my gardener Paciano’s son Eduardo completed a three-day pilgrimage to Talpa, walking and sleeping in rugged mountain terrain, to view its famous Virgin. Today is the first time I’ve seen him in three weeks, since I was in the states for nine days so missed two sessions. When he turned up for his weekly English lesson today, he brought me this lovely hand carved wooden owl, inscribed with this message on the bottom, (which I have translated from the Spanish): “Souvenir of Talpa for dear Judit (sic).
Such a tender and unexpected gift from this sweet teenage boy!!! Today we spent a good hour reviewing the English names for parts of the body. To check his progress, I asked him to draw the human body and to label its parts. After carefully measuring distances to get the proportions correct, here he is at his labeling task. Joints are the hardest ones to remember. Certainly true with me re/ remembering them in Spanish!
Fern for FOTD May 1, 2024
See Cee’s beautiful dogwood blossoms HERE.
Walnut Brown
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Trying to meet this challenge made me realize how little brown there is in my world–let alone walnut brown! I had to search through thousands of photos to find these photos that could be classified in the category of “walnut brown.”
Bougainvillea: Over the Wall, FOTD Oct 29, 2023
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A bougainvillea vine lush from recent rains hangs out over the wall into my lower garden as though to catch a glimpse of the just-completed Quetzalcoatl sculpture down below. It’s been two years now since I started working on this reclamation from dumping ground weed patch to community garden. More to come. And yes, I have decided on a name. A secret for now.
For Cee’s FOTD
Art and Acquisitions
Bob Brown, Artist
Carol Lopez, artist
DePaul Durham, artist
Art Studio
Jan Golik, artist
Pablo Picasso
Bob Brown sculpture and visitor
Young artist
Accumulated
Tree House Art Studio
Art Studio
But, to be fair, the root of all evil is also what feeds the artists who create so much beauty in the world.
(Click on photos to enlarge and read captions.)
Art and Acquisitions
Those who patronize fine art
start out congenial at the start
but then upset the apple cart
by arriving early at the mart
and increasing rate and pace
so they can win the prestige race
by obstinately using cash
to win the collector’s ten-yard-dash.
Marble statues and fine oils
are thus simply used as foils
used within the competition
between those whose one ambition
is to amass all those things
that a pile of money brings.
But in fact, it is the making
of great art, and not the taking
that produces joy in living.
Buying can’t compete with giving.
Prompt words for today are congenial, race, marble, obstinancy, patronize, art
A Weighty Oddity
For Sam’s “A New Kind of Challenge” Prompt he asks us to publish a photo of something odd in our house that weighs a lot. This life-sized lady sits in my front garden in front of my entrance door. I show her here with a couple of different lap “bouquets.” I’ve shown a photo of her recently but she meets the criteria, so here she is again. Carved of solid cantera stone by a local artist, she is probably my heaviest unusual object other than my house itself. Will this do, Sam? If this doesn’t meet your criteria for oddness, I’ll try again.
Dance of the Snake Woman (Art Challenge # 1)
Dance of the Snake Woman
I’ve been nominated by Linda Levy to post a piece of my art each day for ten days. This first selection is one of the pieces in my present show that has been marked SOLD. Unfortunately, I had a terrible time getting a photo of it as it was in a frame with glass over the front and most of the photos had reflected images of other pieces hanging on the wall across from it. In this photo, I managed to get a shot with nothing except myself reflected in the glass. Just for the fun of it, I left my hands. An explanation of the piece is below. With the frame, I believe it was approximately 20 ” square.
Dance of the Snake Woman
In many cultures, the snake functions as a messenger between man and the gods or the conscious and unconscious minds. Number seven is the number of connection as well as the end result of adding numbers 3 and 4, two other numbers of special significance to me. The music box plays “A Little Night Music”—a serenade of sorts.
This piece is about connection to the world as well as one’s own nature. Movement and grounding are of equal importance, as is maintaining a keen eye, creative inspiration and practice, be it in the word of art, dance, music, photography, writing or human interaction. Each of these symbols of the universal truths of the world has a personal significance in my life, as well. My own image was captured in the glass of this piece as I took the picture. It turned out to be appropriate, I think.
The central image is the figure of a woman carved from wood by my husband Bob. It was part of a totem-like carving that had four figures, each standing supported by or supporting another one it a vertical column. In the move to Mexico, it broke into four pieces and although I originally intended to repair it, I later decided to make a collaborative piece out of each figure. Since my husband died shortly before our projected move to Mexico, it has been our last collaboration after 14 years of doing collaborative work together.
The snake extensions and all of the other collage elements were added by me.
Here is a view of the entire piece, reflections and all.
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