Craft a Rebellion: Sculpted Mermaid

Friday, March 25, 2011

Sculpted Mermaid

This mermaid, painted with green fins and seaweed was made from salt dough (I had some extra leftover from the napkin rings and started playing around) and baked in a 200 degree oven slowly until dried through. (I also turned her over after I knew the top was dried to help evenly dry her out and dry the bottom.) \

She was painted with acrylic paints, letting each layer/color dry before starting the next one. (The salt dough absorbed the paint quickly with the first layer and I had to be careful of the paint "pulling" the not yet dry stuff as I added more or with details.) I didn't have flesh colored pain, so that had to be mixed. Once the green fins and black hair was painted and dry I added details of red seaweed through her hair and across her body, then little flowers of orange-ish and white buds.

I love, love, love mermaids and keep trying to perfect my abilities to create them as well as find new ways to utilize them in my creations. I'm sure they will show up again... and again... and again. There really are not enough mermaids in crafting, art, or life.

Bring on the mermaids!

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You might be curious to know about me and about and my creative background. I grew up with a other who sewed and taught me to sew by the time I started kindergarten. We grew up learning how to make paper flowers and foll houses from boxes and old magazines. It seemed as if there was nothing we couldn't come up with a way to do.

I grew up as a Girl Scout and then 4-H when I became old enough, in which I took everything from cooking to woodworking to clowning. I started in theater at a young age helping build costumes for a college production when I was still only in middle school. I learned to take on new creative challenges with a type of fearlessness than many are cautious against. I found not just a love, but also a need to create whether it was something made, something written, or something performed as I took on and played an instrument as well. I learned that y own creativity could take e to places that do not or cannot exist any other place.

In later years, theater has become an even larger part of my life than even when I was younger, both onstage and offstage. y love of costumes has only deepened as I have constantly learned a true love in the arts and of creating something out of nearly nothing. (Which seems to happen a lot in smaller theaters where budgets are small or non-existent.) I supervised and taught Arts & rafts at two different summer camps into my early twenties. I get the joyous task of being able to continue to share and teach and constantly learn. I have volunteered and been a part of outreach projects, as well as write hoping to never loose the desire to create.

Rebel against that which keep us down and make us loose touch with ourselves CREATE SOMETHING!

Favorite Quotes

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius. ~Rebecca Pepper Sinkler
Coloring outside the lines is a fine art. ~Kim Nance
When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?" ~Howard Ikemoto
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ~Twyla Tharp
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. ~Stella Adler
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ~Pablo Picasso
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. ~Leonardo da Vinci

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Friday, March 25, 2011

Sculpted Mermaid

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