Holly sculpts!

I want to introduce you to some characters I know.

All made by a girl who loves to play with clay!

This is Gandolf

He is a fired ceramic sculpt Holly made

last year in beginning art.

He is her first fired clay figure


I think she did a great job, but......
It all really started with a two year old
who loved her Play Doh!



She then discovered by age 4, that modeling

clay was even more fun.

By the time she was a tweener she was

fully into polymer clay.

This is Gnomington

Holly has a thing for mushrooms

Here is an early mermaid

She used shells and beads for accents

She made our yard more expressive!

Treebeard has been watching

over our house for sometime now.

She discovered hand felting with

natural animal wools.

This little lass went to live with

Brian Froud....

Isn't she lucky!

I bet one of Brian's other faerie friends has

set her free of her jar by now!

This curvy gal is one of my favorites

By the time she had made this gal,

Holly was becoming quite passionate about

her sculpting.

It was about this time that she discovered

The art of the Froud's

and her outlook has never been the same!

This fellow is Tristan

He is a faun she sculpted to ride on the back of

our wagon for Faerieworlds.
I never bought the wagon so he didn't get

to go.

This is Merrywillow

She is a top favorite of mine.

This was one of her last sculpts before

we got to take Wendy Froud's

Sculpting workshop at

Faerieworlds 2009

Holly likes to make sure all

of the details are

just right!

I want a hat like Merrywillow's!

Then we took Wendy's class

It was Holly's big

Ah~Ha

day!

I had taught her all I knew about

painting, but I had never

been a sculptor.
She had needed someone to teach

her the way a face comes

together.

She made me

Gwynelyn
for my recent birthday.

We ordered Wendy's

two workshop DVDs so we can

continue to progress.

We just got them this week and need

to make a Michaels run for

supplies.
We have watched them thru and have already

learned a lot more!

Holly's high school is set up in Academies

You choose your career path

and they put you in the proper spot.

Yep,

Holly is in the Art Academy!

She is a sophomore as of 2009

Here she is in her ceramics class.

Natural clay is A LOT more messy than

good old Fimo or Sculpy.

I will post more photos of

this baby dragon when he is done.

This is a bust of Dobby from

Harry Potter

He is made out of polymer clay

It took her a while to get him

just how she wanted him to be.

This is what she wants to do for a living.

To work somewhere like the

Weta Workshop

Making creatures and mask pieces for

the movie industry.
How fun would that be??
*****

Blessings~LillySue