Karisma is our hostess this week.
She prompted us to share something we’ve made with our own hands [or even feet!]. Her statement for this weeks is as follows:
- I MADE IT MYSELF!
I think the title pretty much says it all, but for those of you who may still be wondering, I would like to see or hear about things you have made with your own two hands (or feet, Im not fussy!) We all have different talents and abilities, maybe you like to sew or knit, chisel or sculpt, draw or paint? Whatever your talent is, please share it with us this week.
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I dabble in art, pencil sketching and painting with oil and watercolor medium, over the years. I also like crafting. Mainly crocheting. Right now, I’m in the middle of two afghan projects. One with a Southwestern design [also sewed on conchos and fringe when complete] and the other one with pansies. I just finished painting in watercolor a brown pelican and started my sketch of another to paint…a Japanese Samurai Swordsman. It is pinned to my easel, but the easel is out in our garage right now, and it’s too hot out there to work. So, it sits and is there for a cooler time. In the past I’ve sketched with pencil. I love that. It can be frustrating and relaxing at the same time. Once, Bud had an old whiskey bottle [Jack Daniels Burbon to be exact] and on it, there was a Charles Russell print. I snatched the bottle from the trash when he was through with it, and drew the Indian Maiden’s image on my sketch pad. It’s now framed and on our “Western decor” living room wall…
If you see by my list of “favorites” on my sidebar here, you’ll notice that my favorite artist is Bev Doolittle. At one time, about twenty or twenty-five years ago, her style was unique [now, many are copying her]. She painted with the use of much camouflage. She’d take a work of nature and paint into the picture hidden things. My favorite is “The Forest Has Eyes”. While I was hospitalized about twelve years ago, for something to do to keep from going stir crazy after being released with orders to remain calm, relaxed and bed-ridden at home, Bud brought a picture puzzle so he and I could work on it while I recuperated. To this day, it too is framed and in our living room. Tho it’s not a work done by me, the puzzle was done by me with a couple of hour’s help from Bud when he was done catching up on the housework/chores….
To point out my fascination of her work, there are Native American faces in the painting…13 of them to be exact. [And to show you an actual print we have of hers, Bud's favorite is "Woodland Encounter". The red fox is very prominent but look closer, in the aspen trees....TWO Indian Men on horseback!!]
Bud made the frames, I did the matting work for both, and added a feather cut out for the last print shown. If you’d like to see her work, up close and personal, click here for Woodland Encounter, and here Forest Has Eyes. [You'll be able to spot the faces and the Indians much better than from my photo.]
