Here’s a medium sized torso that I orginally made as an armature to make a glass torso. I did that, and then decided that I shouldn’t make more than one or two from any one slump, so I decided to go ahead and fnish this as it’s own piece. I put resist on it originally so that the glass would come off. It seems that resist continues to resist, so this piece has been an exercise in keeping the finish on.
It has been hanging in the basement sort of finished and sort of not for about 2 years. When I was downstairs working with a client on Saturday, it occurred to me that she is perfect to finish as a Taliswoman, so that’s what I did. I think she’s going to be the largest of the lot – 18″ is just right. I’m wondering if she needs a metal necklace too instead of the illusion Swarovski, but I think I’ll let her sit for a while and maybe make some other pieces and then see what I think.
Yesterday worked with Grandson on his project: desert creatures, environment, etc. We combed through photos Hubby and I have taken on various trips to the Sonoran Desert (mostly AZ) and picked out herbivores and omnivores and carnivores and looked at adaptation. He’s in 3rd grade (wow – I remember throwing a few horses and rocks in a shoe box and calling it good!).
Daughter sent his final creation for me to enjoy and so I include it here for you to enjoy.
Wylde Women’s Wisdom
If an eager child presents you with her masterpiece, her blotchy purple drawing, ou could say, “What a mess. You need to improve your composition and lines.” Or you might say instead, “What a free picture! Such lush color!” Both reactions honor the truth. Which comment will make the child more likely to reace back to her crayons. Support will not leave us naive or inflated, or with blotchy drawings all our lives…Experience teaches. Real creativity takes us beyond ego, but fist we have to get beyond fear. We have to want to back and pick up our crayons. Tama Kieves
Have you picked up your crayons lately? Don’t forget I’m offering downloadable coloring pages for everyone to entice their inner child out to play! (here and here and here and here)
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Kara: As I encourage my grandson to color outside the lines (literally) and choose the colors he wants,Daughter cautions that I will have to go deal with his teachers. Of course, she would never
let me do that, having done her best to keep between me and her teachers in her own
schools (keep Mom under control at all costs). ;]
Kirsten – I do hope that you will absolutely share your coloring pages- outside the lines and colors of your choice – or any other way you choose to color them! I have a wonderful poster by artist Bill Worrell about coloring outside the lines and he has made a poster of blocks of color that have to reference to the lines he drew (he does these amazing huge Shaman – he’s all Santa Fe and Sedona)
Hello Tammy, happy Tuesday to you.
This is a beautiful Taliswoman, there is a power to her that is almost pouring through the computer screen.
And it looks like your grandson has inherited your artistic talent, I love his painting.
My art teacher told me she couldn’t understand why I was in her class as I had no talent whatsoever. It has taken me over thirty years to pick up a crayon or colouring pencil & I’m still struggling with the idea that I don’t have to use the ‘right’ colours; that hair can be cerise pink if I want it to be, for example. Remember the Harry Chapin song about so many colours in the rainbow? I’m trying to keep that in mind when I colour & your colouring pages are a huge help – I suppose the next brave step for me would be to let you see the end results. 🙂
WOW, Tammy, she’s just lovely! What a beautiful piece. Your grandson’s piece is awesome, too — everything in there calls to my heart which seems to long for the desert now.
And thank you much much much for the reminder of the art of response. I’ve been keen to that since the 6th grade art teacher told me my trees were “wrong”??! ugh. So glad things unfolded here, such that, despite that experience, I found a way to LOVE my crayons again 🙂
Art On!
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