STUDIO OF BONNIE JONES

The Proximidade Award

What a pleasant surprise to discover I have been awarded "The Proximidade Award" by the wonderfully multi-talented artist, Tina Von Wiesen .  Thank you Tina for considering me and my blog for this award!!!

Here is a description as to what this award means:

"This blog invests and believes in the PROXIMITY-nearness in space, time and relationships.  These blogs are exceedingly charming.  These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends.  They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement!  Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated.  Please give attention to these writers!"

I must now pass this Award along to 8 blogs that I feel are deserving of it.  The other criteria is that when accepting this Award, you must post the meaning of the Award on your blog (see above).

Marilyn Radzat

Ev Scott 

Bonnie Lee Fontaine 

Silke Janas-Schloesser 

Ute Vasina 

Nancy Malay 

Dianie Mac 

Suzanne Urban  

I do hope you will take time to visit each and every one of these blogs that I have listed!!

 

Shakespeare Challenge

I belong to a group on Etsy called Art Dolls Only or ADO.  Check them out because there are many very talented artists in this group and they all create Art Dolls.   They have started a Shakespeare Challenge whereby you can create any character from his body of work.  This was a hard decision since there are so many wonderful characters; but,  for quite some time now, I have had a sketch (laughing, I do not draw very well, but I understood it) of Romeo and Juliet that I have been putting on the back burner.  So, this challenge was the incentive to create this piece that has been haunting me.

I sculpted busts of the lovers and put them on top of a mosaic stand.  They are sculpted from Puppen Fimo with a wash of burnt umber and wrapped with a piece of dyed silk gauze dipped into Paverpol.  Their stand is a combination of mosaic tiles, stone and beads.  The entire piece is 12" tall and can be found in my Etsy Store