Since the middle of August when I first heard of the word Zen Tangle I think there have been only one or two days when I have not taken pen to paper and let the world melt away while I doodled, drew and even painted my way through learning as many new patterns as I could.
This week I will be doing my drawing at a picnic table in the yard beside our cabin in the woods. One ear will be listening for the bear that has been sniffing around camp and the other ear will be enjoying the chickadees, poplar leaves and motor boats that I can hear down the hill on the Saskatchewan River. The rest of me will be lost on the page.
A couple weekends ago I was able to talk my friend Karen into showing me how she makes her Garden Spirit sculptures. I have been intrigued by her sculptures since she posted her first pictures on Facebook and talked about the class she took at Red Roof Studio in Alberta. I had heard that she was going back for another class and had brought back enough supplies to show a few people how to make them. We enjoyed another beautiful fall day in the gazebo in her back yard while I learned how to build a sculpture out of wire, tinfoil and masking tape. Then we cut up some old white t-shirts into strips and soaked them in the special GSM, looks like white glue that we added color to. We wrapped the soaked material around the tinfoil form. It looked like a mummy when we were done. If you don't mind messes and having glue stuck all the way up to your elbows then you may enjoy this! Once the mummy was wrapped we got to dress it. Again material cut and dipped in the GSM and draped over the form. Everything had to dry for a couple days and then it was painted to look like aged bronze and sealed so it can live out in the garden with out being bothered by the rain or snow. I think my sculpture looks pretty good, for the first attempt. Maybe I will make her a friend to share her rock with, wouldn't want her to be lonely in my garden.
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