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OMG what a beautiful day! First of all, a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my daughter Charlotte who is 16 today! 16 years ago, right about now (high noon) I gave birth to my one & only girl. ^_^ Wow...time does fly! Pictures coming of the birthday celebration (where you get to see her new cute Asian boyfriend; he looks just like anime! She's cycling through significant others at an alarming rate lately...good for her I say).
Ahem. Yes! And! I LOVE my newest masks! FireFoxes!
Isn't that the cutest fox mask ever? I mean, I just can't be modest about it...I love this mask! Available on Etsy of course.
Because it's a fantasy fox, I used metallic paints too...gold accents on the red fox:
Metallic blue and silver on the blue-gray version:
This one is the original commission.
It started as a special request for a "blue fox" on Etsy and you know...I was feeling SO uninspired. She said she wanted a fox mask along the same lines as my big StormWolf mask; a fantasy fox. I came up with the pattern by basically combining the plain fox with the big spiky wolf mask, & the pattern sat for days. I stared at it, but couldn't "see" the finished mask. Finally I just bit the bullet & got to work on it over the weekend, & as soon as I started, the design just flowed out of me onto the leather like water; it was so easy.
As an artist I find the BEST way to get yourself "unstopped" creatively is to just get to work anyway. Sometimes you'll "hit" on a design, whether by instinct or chance, & it'll pull you out of that funk faster than anything. Maybe that's a good life-lesson; it might not be easy, but just DO it anyway. Dieting, working out, writing, creating art, building a business...just DO it. Like the Nike commercial says.
My Dad loved to quote freely from "The Voice Of The Silence" Finally now I understand what he meant. He would tell us...
"If Sun thou can'st not be, then be the humble planet. Aye, if thou art debarred from flaming like the noon-day Sun upon the snow-capped mount of purity eternal, then choose, O Neophyte, a humbler course. "
And this was his favorite. He used to say it ALL the time.
"...if thou would'st Nirvana reach, or cast the prize away, let not the fruit of action and inaction be thy motive, thou of dauntless heart."
Dad has been gone for, wow...almost exactly eight years now. Yet I'm still learning from him.
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I'm on my second cup of coffee! Time to head out for a bike ride with Kiba. It's cold as heck but the sun is shining so cheerfully that I simply have to bundle up and go. ^_^
Ahem. Yes! And! I LOVE my newest masks! FireFoxes!
Isn't that the cutest fox mask ever? I mean, I just can't be modest about it...I love this mask! Available on Etsy of course.
Because it's a fantasy fox, I used metallic paints too...gold accents on the red fox:
Metallic blue and silver on the blue-gray version:
This one is the original commission.
It started as a special request for a "blue fox" on Etsy and you know...I was feeling SO uninspired. She said she wanted a fox mask along the same lines as my big StormWolf mask; a fantasy fox. I came up with the pattern by basically combining the plain fox with the big spiky wolf mask, & the pattern sat for days. I stared at it, but couldn't "see" the finished mask. Finally I just bit the bullet & got to work on it over the weekend, & as soon as I started, the design just flowed out of me onto the leather like water; it was so easy.
As an artist I find the BEST way to get yourself "unstopped" creatively is to just get to work anyway. Sometimes you'll "hit" on a design, whether by instinct or chance, & it'll pull you out of that funk faster than anything. Maybe that's a good life-lesson; it might not be easy, but just DO it anyway. Dieting, working out, writing, creating art, building a business...just DO it. Like the Nike commercial says.
My Dad loved to quote freely from "The Voice Of The Silence" Finally now I understand what he meant. He would tell us...
"If Sun thou can'st not be, then be the humble planet. Aye, if thou art debarred from flaming like the noon-day Sun upon the snow-capped mount of purity eternal, then choose, O Neophyte, a humbler course. "
And this was his favorite. He used to say it ALL the time.
"...if thou would'st Nirvana reach, or cast the prize away, let not the fruit of action and inaction be thy motive, thou of dauntless heart."
Dad has been gone for, wow...almost exactly eight years now. Yet I'm still learning from him.
...
I'm on my second cup of coffee! Time to head out for a bike ride with Kiba. It's cold as heck but the sun is shining so cheerfully that I simply have to bundle up and go. ^_^
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I am actually glad Char is dating freely. For a while she was involved with a long term "serious" relationship and the drama of it all took a toll on her. I actually said "you are just a kid...you need to enjoy this time when you get to date different people & LEARN all about what you do & don't want in a relationship. It's your best & only chance to do that safely with no serious repercussions. You have your whole adult life to get serious & settle down so for crying out loud, have some fun!" & you know, she listened to me & it's cut down on the drama immensely. Kids need to behave like kids & not like jaded twenty-somethings, you know?