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Then that means
that I too am a folk artist and I never knew it
posted by
David_S
on August 20, 2004 at 8:18 AM
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Ay grandmammina...
how can you cook when your hands are covered in clay!
So what will you serve your cura parocco when he visits you.
posted by
Friar__Tuck
on March 21, 2004 at 7:36 AM
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Friar Tuck, I am called a folk artist, that means that I am self taught, no
classes to attend. You just buy a bag of clay and make something. Your first things will not be what you think they will be or should be and you may be disappointed, but things get prettier with practice.
Over fifteen years ago I told an employer, I was the designer for a factory that made many kinds of artwork, anyway, I told the owner that he needed many classes on the subject of personnel management and then I quit. When I got home, I wondered how I would pay the rent, feed my youngest son. I bought a bag of clay and made some very ugly little nativity scenes, very primitive looking and fired them in a small jeweler's kiln that two gay friends who had a shop in another town gave me. They heard of my plight and John and Curly were wonderful and rescued me with their old unused kiln. I fired my first pieces and went to every store in the phone book which bought this kind of artwork.
I was rejected in most all of the stores, but one Mexican American lady had faith in my work and bought some. Then she suggested other items to make and as my work got prettier, it sold more quickly. My hands grow more confident each day and the work shows this. Practice makes perfect or more perfect. What we do daily is what improves.
I only wish that I had cooked more in life!!! Only my two dogs like what I make.
So, you could just buy some clay or borrow some and play with it. Untrained art is folk art and it has its followers and buyers. My work looks much more 'trained' now that all these years have passed. Yours could, too!!!! It is a very relaxing pastime after the first stress at 'trying to make it perfectly' has passed. I highly recommend it to you. You could make little Friar Tuck's and sell them to raise money for some worthy cause.
posted by
benzinha
on March 21, 2004 at 3:00 AM
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Yes, Abuelita
I'd love to see that. I did clay modelling but only with the plastic clay children use. I wish I could learn to make clay figures, but I don't know where I can learn and I am too tied up with work to study anyway.
posted by
Friar__Tuck
on March 20, 2004 at 6:58 AM
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Frair Tuck, some day in the not too distant future, I will link to an old
website made about seven years ago by my brohter, about my artwork. It only has old things on it and I am usually embarrassed to let people see only my old things. Maybe I will post some newer things at another site and then link to them. I am, however, trying to remain anonymous, dunno why, just am. However, I thank you for your interest.
posted by
benzinha
on March 20, 2004 at 12:10 AM
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I wish
that you could write about your work and show us pictures of the things you do
posted by
Friar__Tuck
on March 19, 2004 at 1:32 AM
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Friar Tuck, muchissimas gracias por su gentileza. I made a
Storyteller Angel today. She's a large seated figurine of an angel, with nine little angels crawling all over her. After that I decided that I should have made her St. Michael and had all of his Angels climbing all over him. The name of my church is his. I couldn't decide on what to make next and came to waste some time on Blogit instead of working. Rats!!
I give up and shall go to sleep now, waking early with whatever I dream up in my sleep, to create tomorrow in clay.
posted by
benzinha
on March 19, 2004 at 12:31 AM
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:)
posted by
Friar__Tuck
on March 16, 2004 at 7:37 AM
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Ditto, Friar, ditto.
As I read more of your blogs, my admiration and like for you grows. I may even make the ultimate sacrifice and expose myself to your religious writing. I feel the call. Which means I probably have the need.
posted by
notapoet
on March 16, 2004 at 4:34 AM
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