I think I bought these packages of Paperclay to play with a couple years ago. They've been sitting on the back of my desk, waiting for me to feel like I have time to just make something for fun.
Vacation.
That's it.
No computer. No phone. No clients. No deadlines. Just the beach and a couple tubs of art supplies.
Art for art's sake was an important detail of this vacation, falling back in love with creating: I really needed that. Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful there are so many clients and deadlines. Lucky to have that. I know it. But ... vacation. That's another thing. Did I mention I needed that? Yeah. Really, really, really did.
The first day I just started molding some globs, not really knowing what I was doing. Trying very hard to not know what I was doing. Trying to let go.
A mermaid.
Why not.
Then these little guys ... I couldn't stop.
No plan, just trying to turn off my brain. Well, at least half of it.
Pretty soon I had worked my way through 2 of the 3 packages of clay. Right-Brain could have gone on but Left-Brain made me stop, it reminded me that I may want to dry and paint these things before returning to the Real World again, you know, that place where packages of Paperclay sit untouched on the back of my desk for 2 years.
And little by little
I did
finish them, that is.
How much fun was this.
Oh.
My.
Gosh.
I hung these guys with old guitar string (how handy is it that Husband Guy changed strings at the cabin?).
I still need to cut some little pieces of the string to glue to this guy's guitar.
I could have kept doing this all day every day for ... I don't know, months? Yeah, at least months. Nonstop. Maybe years nonstop. Playing with clay, drawing, reading, baking, eating, walking on the beach. I totally could. That's the problem with vacation ... it ends. It is nice to be home, I do love home. But, well, you know. Vacation.
OMG..you have been hiding all this magic from me...I had know idea you had created these while on vacation...they are fabulous.
I can not wait to see them mass produced!! YUP I am sure a smart manufacture is going to want to license your 3-D line!!
Posted by: Sue | August 18, 2010 at 07:26 AM