[Woodcarver] new projects

[GlendaKAllen at aol.com]

Hi Maura,
you say a lot of what I'd been feeling and what was lost at a younger age.  
the Book by Betty Edwards had just came out when I'd gotten married and I had  
heard about it but then I was busy with family and I wish more than once I
 would have gotten it along time ago and stayed with my art it was a  mayor 
thing for me. it is really an awesome book and if you don't have it you  might 
try to get it not to waste time. so many people look at art like get a  real 
job and they haven't even looked into what it really consists of. sometimes  to 
me its more than any 8 to 5 job its always there visual ,dreaming and the way 
 you view the world and the lords beauty of life the good and bad..I guess to 
an  artist as it is to a mother all the ups and downs but yet can't be beat!
 
Glenda
 
ps don't quit! just in case you think it.
 
Hi Maricha,   My two carving words this year are passion and  wonder.  having 
been artistic all my life in different ways, but never  having brought much 
to 
fruition,  I am glad to finally have found my  passion.  Nothing has ever 
held 
my interest for long.  entering my  3rd year of carving and still being quite 
motivated is a wonderful  thing.  Wonder is what has spurred me on.  to see 
the 
looks on the  faces of people when i show them my newest creation, to drink 
in 
their  comments as if i can't get enough till I am drunk, is the only 
motivation i  have needed thus far.  Had i gone with my inate abilities when 
younger,  
who knows where I might have been today, instead I listened to those voices  
of 
reason, who said it was time to stop playing around and get a "real  job".  
well 
i did.  only thing that came out of it was the ability  to pay my bills on 
time.  In reality thou, I was miserable going off to  work each day.  Some 
might 
say it was just laziness on my part, but i  disagree, as i could carve 80 
hours 
a week and still not consider it  work.  I believe people were not meant to 
punch a clock or to spend  their lives furthering someone elses' aims.   I 
mourn 
the loss of  the possibilities that were open to me as a young adult.  Then 
again,  had life taken a different path for me, i may never have started 
carving.   
While right now i am taking on all manners of carving to get my experience,  
I 
do sense something greater within myself.  Each day builds upon  itself, and 
knowledge and experience is being acquired by doing and  communicating with 
other 
artists and carvers.  I know that i am  destined to find my niche, however at 
present do not understand what this  might be. I also understand that it will 
come in its own time. The things  that spur me on in carving is first and 
foremost, a need for self  expression,  a love of wood, and a tempermental 
confidant 
ego(which i  never had until a short time ago) and last but not least a 
thirst 
to get  better and better at what i do.  I appeciate the relaxation and  
solitude that carving affords me and the feeling that i am finally being  
myself.  I 
keep special pieces of wood set aside for things that i know  will be greater 
than what i am doing now.  commision work is where I am  heading at present, 
not 
for the money, but for the forced learning  opportunities.  eventually I am 
headed into free form carving, where i  shall simply allow the wood to use my 
knowledge and hands to shape it.   but who knows what will happen along my 
carving 
journey.  it is the  wonders of the possibilities that lie ahead, which keep 
me 
striving on a  daily basis.

Maura carvin' in nyc
_http://www.picturetrail.com/whiteknight718_ 
(http://www.picturetrail.com/whiteknight718) 
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