Sunday, February 3, 2013
Of Stone urn making, blanket sewing, painting & more...
I have been working on a most heart-breaking commission to make a stone urn for a family that lost their baby. The family sketch will be engraved on to the side once the urn is complete. The stone is dolomite from Haliburton, a hard local marble. You can see some of my tools - grinders, chisels and mallet, and diamond hand rasps. I light a candle often while I am in the shop working on this piece and think of the little spirit while walking my labyrinth. I was working on the urn during the day and during the evenings making a blanket for my newest nephew Matthew with fun fabrics:
I spent weekends cleaning out my old room & found the stone ring I had made and lost in my messy room, happy to have it back! I took old nature art that I had made long ago and had been on the walls for too long and I put them in the compost pile, this was strangely therapeutic to purge this way...
Back in November I had painted these birds (goldfinch, hawk, white-crowned sparrow) for the Muskoka Arts & Crafts Mystery Art Sale Who Art Thou? Hope they found good homes.
I cannot believe it is already February, but I still get inspired by the snow in the woods. I wrote a song yesterday and put it on soundcloud ... have a great Year of the Snake everyone!
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What a full post! And I'm sure that's not half of what you've been up to. Interesting that we both have babies on our minds, tender spirits. How I loved your "old nature art" and how delightful your folk art birds.
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