'Red Feather'.. Small gourd mask set on saguaro cactus ribs. Embelished with horse hair,hand painted feathers,red coral beads,glass ebony arrowhead. Small Gourd mask set on a saguaro cactus rib background.Embelished with hand painted feathers,real feathers, turquoise bead earrings.Leather strings with metal cones hang at the sides,centered at the base with a deer antler button,bear woodcut…
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Gourd artist Barbara Lewis embraces flow as she morphs her graceful designs into Southwest art. Barbara talks with Mary Ellen Beads Albuquerque about creativity and her designs. The two team up to show their works during the 15th annual Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour.
My masks are a combination of southwestern and contemporary expressions. While the basic idea is Native American, the actual layout of each mask is my original design including the shapes and coloring of the copper and paper feathers. I play with textures and materials to create truly unique pieces. click on images below for detailed view
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Springtime is always an inspiring and motivating time for me. Yes I know that I am in Southern California where a change of season isn't that dramatic as in other places, but I think of it more as an internal thing. I realize that I don't "blog" very often and perhaps it isn't the most exciting of reads, but for those few who happen to find me, here is an update of what I've been working on. The next show my gourds and I will be is The 14th Annual Gourd Festival in Fallbrook, California this June: http://www.gourdfestival.com/ Last year was the first time I participated in this show and found the atmosphere to be very pleasant, down to earth, and I felt surrounded by kindred spirits. I met Dean at that show (I mentioned him in an earlier post) and he suggested that I do a Passion Flower, so that is what I'm working on now in addition to my usual Trumpet Vine carved gourd. I'm also working on some masks. Since I did Brown Beauty, the subject of my last entry, I thought I might do some more equids. There is also an Aztec/Mayan inspired mask that I'm debating what colors (or not) to use. I'm almost finished with an African antelope called a Gemsbok. I included a picture of all of the masks...some completed last fall and some I've had for a while. Don't get me wrong, I love gourds, but one can not live on gourds alone. Every time I go into my garage I usually see a pile of stacked trays next to the water heater. About a year ago a friend told me about some food trays that were for the taking in the workroom of my kids' school. She took some and I took a bunch and I thought I could paint something (anything) on them. Well, there they've sat until recently...could it be the Spring wind blowing my creative self off the couch? For inspiration I looked no further than my vegetable drawer in the refrigerator. I have more ideas and will get going on these trays. I've gotten so used to painting on a curved surface than working on a flat space seems odd. One more thing...you've probably noticed that my blog includes music in the title. So far all I've had representing music is a goofy song called The Bunco Song, but I hope to put out a 9 or 10 song CD next month called Perfect Moment. It will probably be distributed through CD Baby and eventually be available on iTunes. One song on the CD (I almost said album...have I dated myself?) is called Oh Gourd. Well, I'm all blogged out...happy Spring everybody.
'Blue Sun Face', hand painted gourd mask with handmade fabric feathers. 'Sun and rain face',hand painted gourd mask with hand painted and handmade fabric feathers. Handpainted Gourd mask with hand painted and real feathers. A Crow Indian face with bird headdress is painted on one side of the mask,there is a bundle of black feathers…
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