Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s tale, The Tinderbox. About 18” x 19” in mixed media. Somehow I think of much loved fairytale books as winter and Christmas come…
The Tinderbox, tinted in acrylics
Hans Christian Andersen's "The Tinderbox" ~ work in progress
Little Red Ridinghood & her Wolf
Little Red and the Wolf in air dry clay Premier, with Aves Fixit Sculpt to strengthen armatures and bases.
A Red Riding Hood, underway...
Just coming along in Premier air dry clay... a very smooth, soft clay to work with... about 13+ inches tall
Little Mermaid, again...
Still on the year's Carnegie Dinosaur toy prototypes. Alas, I cannot show them to you yet. Safari, the company producing them, very much wants the subjects to remain a surprise until they are released for public consumption. But thereafter, I’ll post some in progress images, and further develop the Carnegie Museum Dino page. Meantime, here’s the Little Mermaid. You likely saw her before, but... I aim to do more with Hans C. Andersen tales over the next while.
The Little Mermaid again...
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The shred of silk she's holding is a textile preservation fabric... good for tiny beings.
I imagine she may think of the dresses at the Prince's dance, and what is worn by human women. Well, some human women, and of another time than this...
The Snow Queen
A detail from a Snow Queen in progress, oil on canvas. I wanted to capture the remote nature of the character as she appears to me, chill and numinous. The boy (Kay, in the Hans Christian Andersen story) is a near likeness of my father as a child. He fled this world poignantly early, and this tale felt fitting.