SOCK ANIMALS Sox-n-Animals GIMMEE more, more, MORE! Yet another addiction.

Jessie made Capra the goat, who looks an awful lot like the real Capra the goat that Jessie milks on the farm.

Spot and tush (toosh), who is sibling to Fatush who lives in Geyserville.

even closer! Yummy!

tush (“toosh”) looks a lot like his sibling Fatush but had a freak ear accident. Please don’t stare, he’s a little self-conscious.

Ever seen a cute butt? Well here’s TWO!

the ever-growing menagerie

Yes, If I had more time I’d have a lot more critters. I love, love, LOVE to make these, and you can see by Jessie’s magnificent goat that the sock critter fever is contagious, indeed!

Paste Paper (altered) Gameboards

My student and friend Diane Paget created this amazing paste paper Backgammon game. She even made fimo game pieces and a matching red and green marbled pouch for them to go into. I altered an old gameboard into a paste paper checkerboard. The obsession continues…

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Student’s Paste Paper AKA Being (age) 5 again

Beginning from the top: Ellen Springwater, David Spain, Susan McClure and Geraldine Rose. Aren’t these YUMMY?!?!

So, I only have a few large pieces of other’s papers in my personal collection, but I witness the amazing creation of these Rorschach-like paintings from friends and students quite often. I would show more, but alas I need to scan pieces bigger than the swatches I have begged for. My begging continues….!

One of the most interesting things about working on these with my crazy free-for-all anti-perfection process is that everyone’s personality shines through the work. If you’re feeling freaky or blue or fabulous or funky, it is bound to reveal itself. Folks often find that they think that their particular paste paper “looks the same” (yeah, right!). It’s just that each person does tend to have a style or repetitive almost meditative-ness to his or her stroke. (Thus, in my opinion the entire process becomes a therapeutic way of letting go.) And if you don’t “like it”, just…paint over it! Add another coat! How liberating!!