Brief Update
While I was on vacation the first week of September, I completed another mask for the commission. The piece below is the 'Seal Inhua' - unfinished. This mask is dry-fitted together. When it's stained it will be white (it represents a hair seal), with black and a little bit of red. The original mask was surrounded with a white caribou fur ruff. Lacking access to caribou fur, I will replace the ruff with a 'ruff' of white feathers. This mask is about10" long and about 5" wide.
The crack that runs diagonally across the piece is inherent to the cottonwood bark - it is actually the grooves in the front side of the bark that I carved down to. I thought about filling the crack with putty, but the piece isn't unstable - I did insert a dowel through the underside of the crack. The oil stain should also seal the wood and keep it from checking - I've never had problems with the bark doing that. The only other option is to make a new seal.
On vacation, I also completed a partner doll for my friend Rebeca's Baba Yaga. This is Pavel. I finished his clothes last Sunday, and he has now gone to his new home, where he is keeping Baba Yaga company. Pavel is dressed in a Cossack costume, with a green tunic and trim that match Baba Yaga's outfit. I'll have to go visit Rebeca again to take a photo of the two together!
posted by Elderberry Studio @ 9:52 PM
2 Comments:
ruffles of feathers
surrounding the round-faced mask
of Seal Inhua
Hello Jackie,
I found your blog through Marja-Leena and wrote a haiku for your new mask.
http://olivia-kroth.blog.de.vu
Olivia: thank you for the lovely haiku! When I was a young girl, my mother took my twin brother & me to live in Hawaii for a year. We attended the local elementary school in Waikiki, where one of the subjects was 'culture'. We had a section on writing haiku, which I enjoyed very much!
I see that you are a writer of mysteries...one of my favorite genres. I'm an avid reader - though the last mystery novel I read was a series of "The Ladies No. 1 Detective Agency" books.
I loved your blog entry on your current book. In Hawaii, my brother and I visited the zoo weekly - sometimes several times a week (it was free to enter). I used to take my sketch book and sit in front of different animal pens. My favorite part was the petting zoo, with it's miniature goats.
Thank you for visiting!
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