Riley has been busy at clay class. What this girl does with big old hunks of clay, given a two hour time block to create! She explores textures, and shapes and comes up with things uniquely her own. Yesterday, she brought home two new pieces. The first, predictably, a cat. But not just any cat. This gentle sweet cat, is concerned with cleanliness, and she’s thus licking her paw. Look at the movement in the piece!
The second piece is a dragon. A fierce, fanged, fearless dragon.
We think the two could learn a lot from each other.
So we made room for both, on the mantle,
where they will remind us of the value of both kinds of energy.
Gentleness and fearlessness.
Amen.
She’s very talented and I love how you’ve displayed these.
My daughter is 22 and I just unpacked some of her early clay works that I shipped over from the US to my new home in England. She’s mortified of course that I have any of her early art projects displayed, but my favorite gifts from her always were the things she made herself.
These are gorgeous! I love that you are giving Riley ways to explore her world in a tactile way.
She did a great job! Love that the cat is cleaning itself!
Love the cat especially because it’s an usual pose. So amazing that Riley can do this after the initial faltering steps. She really is blooming 😀
she is ROCKING it with that clay! so inspiring!
Those are AWESOME! Riley perseveres and ends up doing amazing things.
xo
That is one wonderful cat! I’ll be it’s therapeutic for her to be working with clay too.
Do you know the Jabberwocky? That dragon reminds me of how my find envisions the Jabberwocky!
Wow! She is so talented! I hope she’s proud of her work!
These are really, really good!! She is an art-teest. A real one.
🙂
The most amazing things come from Miss Riley!
What I love even more are the evolutionary pics of the kids in the background. More fearlessness and gentleness, you know?
She’s really good at this. You may have to put up some shelves eventually to display all of them.
Perfect in every way!
Have I ever said this before, you are my human.
Lydia you are SO right – it’s a jabberwocky!
What’s a jabberwocky?
Wow. Those are really good!
OK, & I’m with you…what’s a jabberwocky?