today

It is art day at the clubhouse where a few of us who love to create go to play on Friday's. Last week someone else needed the clubhouse for a big sale so we've been 2 weeks and I'm anxious to get going. I'm taking acrylics and plan to start a mew picture of the yard with the fish pond from a photo I took last summer. It is sunny and beautiful in the photo and again today.
Could spring be truly thinking about settling in? I so hope.

Magical Door Series

Door
Hope; opportunity; opening; passage from one state or world to another; entrance to new life; initiation; the sheltering aspect of the Great Mother. The open door is both opportunity and liberation.

I am enjoying creating magical doors, fairy doors, doors into the otherworld through a stump, a tree a castle wall. Hope you enjoy them as much as I have creating them.

Fossil Beads

Fossil beads are interesting looking and fun to make. I have made them both with pordelain clay and with polymer clay and like one as well as the other.
With polymer clay:
1. choose a neutral colored clay off white, beige, even flesh or a combination of scrap clay that will give you a light neutral color, and condition well.
2. roll out to about 1/4" thickness.
3.Use natural items as texture plates. (sea shells, coral, bark, pine cones (cleaned), weed seed heads, thistle heads etc.)
4. impress clay with texture items.
5. tear clay into shapes about 1" x 2" or "2" or the size you want or your texture field suggests.
6. make one or two hanging hole with a skewer or piercing tool.
7. Bake at 265 for 30 minutes in a clay dedicated oven or in a baking bag (those kind made for turkeys)
When finished baking and cooled it is time to tome them with pastel acrylic washes. When this is dry, brush surface with Pearlex. I like these left mat, but if you prefer a shine, coat with Future floor finish.
These look fine on a ribbon or cord, or use one as a a focal bead in a free form peyote necklace!