Say It Saturday

Hello everyone from sunny and HOT AZ!!! Yes it has been rather warm here and that keeps me inside and reluctant to go anywhere. I have been feeling a little ....um....burned out? In a rut? Restless? Not sure what I need I just know I need something! Usually when I feel like this I take a class in something and it snaps me out of it. 

I think this time I just really need to get my creative juices flowing and create something. I've been kind of leaning towards sculpting and this week tried to work on a paper mache piece with my oldest grand daughter. I have to say, I have not created with paper mache other than covering a balloon to make a pinata years ago. It was a bit challenging to get the paper mache piece started right, it is going to be a cat, it looks a little wonky right now. I looked online with my grand daughter at all the different things one can make with paper mache and was rather surprised and impressed! There are a lot of really creative people around the world.

I took a ceramics class about 13 years ago and didn't get much out of it as I discovered I couldn't throw on the wheel very good due to a nerve injury in my shoulder that affects my left thumb. I did however love the hand building part of the class. A few years ago I decided to take a college sculpture class. As I sat naively waiting for class to begin, a class mate asked around if anyone knew when the naked models would be there for us to sculpt. I don't know what I thought we would be sculpting! I was in horrified shock wondering if I could figure out how to get out of there un noticed when a male model stepped up on the platform in a bathrobe. I just wanted to die!

Such a relief when the professor walked in and told the model he could go dress, we would only be sculpting his feet. I started to breath again! We sculpted his feet, later our own hands, a bust from photos, and then a live model who thankfully was a woman about my age. It was still really hard looking that closely at a disrobed person but she had no problem what so ever with it nor did my class mates seem too. I relaxed some what and discovered I really liked sculpting. I just haven't done anything since then; until this paper mache project with the grand daughter. We'll see how that goes. 

But here is a pic for you of 2 of my projects from back when, my hands, and the live model. She is about 5 inches tall here made with a fired paper clay and I love her! What do you think? 

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