BS: Snow Dragons

Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons
From: MMario
Date: 22 Mar 01 - 12:15 PM

Bert - I think snow sculpture would fall under any reasonable definition of "folk art" -

now chainsaw carving of ice sculptures would be a little harder to include....

but in this case - "found materials" and the most basic of tools, if any,

- you can't fault Jande and family for having skill and an artistic sense, now can you?

Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons
From: Bert
Date: 22 Mar 01 - 12:28 PM

I wasn't faulting her, just making the comment that the work was more of a classical nature. Better than a lot of the folk art that we see.

Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 22 Mar 01 - 12:28 PM

Damn, Bert! First time I remember you actually citing criteria for a Thread of the Week choice! See folks...therr is method to his madness! :>} LEJ

Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons
From: Noreen
Date: 22 Mar 01 - 01:13 PM

So- we'll all be using bert's stated criteria to compete for Fred of the Week, in future, folks?? *BG*

Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons
From: Bert
Date: 22 Mar 01 - 01:22 PM

You're laboring under the misapprehension here 'That Bert is consistent'

Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons
From: Penny S.
Date: 22 Mar 01 - 05:04 PM

Did a snow hedgehog once - the house next door had scaffolding, and the scaffolding had icicles a couple of feet or more long, so my friend went climbing and retrieved them. Great fun.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons
From: Noreen
Date: 22 Mar 01 - 06:06 PM

Lovely, Penny!

Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons
From: Jande
Date: 22 Mar 01 - 07:18 PM

Bert! Thankyou so much! I can't tell you how honoured I am that the very first thread I started on Mudcat ended up being your pick of the week! And that so many people responded to it with enthusiasm. Thanks for explaining 'why' you picked it, too!

Just as a "slight" aside, my partner's daughter, who created the baby dragon and the legs, feet and half of the claws for the big dragon (and then taught her dad how so he made the claws for the back legs) won an honourable mention certificate and pin last night at an art show for a wonderful watercolour of a cat. Her only idsappaointment was that her art teacher had matted the picture in such a way that she completely covered up the two darling mice that were an integral part of the painting! She probably thought she was doing her a faavour by "improving" the painting. But Lissa was quite disappointed. I wish people wouldn't do things like that to kids.

Anyway, Mal took some pictures that I have now uploaded to my art site. If you love cats as much a Lissa does you'll love this painting.

If you're interested they are here:

Lissa receiving her prize & certificate (room was very dark at the time for the slide show.)

Proud Lissa with her prize-winning be-ribboned art.

The full matted painting

A closer view of the painting

Painting detail: CatsEye

This is real "folk art".

~ Jande

Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons
From: hesperis
Date: 22 Mar 01 - 11:01 PM

Jande somehow forgot to mention that she IS an artist! (...among many other things, lol.)

Great pictures, again.

Congrats, Lissa!

Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons
From: Jande
Date: 22 Mar 01 - 11:06 PM

Oh... was I 'sposed to, Hes?

I'll pass your compliments on to Mal/James and your congrats to Melissa! Thanks!

~ Jande

Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons
From: hesperis
Date: 23 Mar 01 - 11:09 PM

Of course you were! "We need to know" these things.

Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Mar 01 - 11:29 PM

Sorry, Jande, that's not Folk Art, that's Fine Art......Lissa is how old, you say? That cat is FAR better than a lot of stuff I have seen in galleries. Her (own, not the cat's) "eye" is better than many professinals........incredible stuff for an adult to do, let alone a kid.

Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons
From: Jande
Date: 25 Mar 01 - 07:01 PM

Sorcha: I will definitely pass this on to Lissa when she visits us again on Wed evening! Thankyou!

(I agree)

~ Jande

Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons
From: Jande
Date: 30 Mar 01 - 06:43 PM

well, I didn't get a chance to pass on your praise to her on Wed, but she is with us for the whole weekend, so I'll show her tomorrow. She and James are at the Circus tonight. I dislike circuses, so I'm having a happy evening at home.

The Snow Dragons are but a memory of snow now. Little muddy white mounds quickly melting in the rain...

~ Jande