Hello Castleberry, apparently all is well with you and your creativity too! This meeting with this wild animal is very interesting, you have created a bond of trust. The animal sensed if he approached you that he could trust you and that his life was not in danger. It is rare to meet wild animals that accept this promiscuity. I have a female blackbird (local bird) who comes to visit me every day, she scratches the ground looking for food. I help her by adding cereal to the soil. I also pay attention to the cats that prowl so that she does not help herself to meals.
The more the day passes, the less she is afraid and approaches less than a meter from me to eat without being suspicious of my presence. For the moment she hasn't decided to eat from my hand, I haven't had the chance you had.
I really like your creation, especially the idea of the squirrel riding a butterfly to conquer new horizons. His gaze is positive and without malice. His little acrobatic animals have always fascinated me. They are discreet and it is difficult to see them if they have not taken up residence near their home. I also like the representation of the antennae of the butterfly which serves as its rudder. He looks good and ready to explore the magical art world of Castleberry. Thank you for your creation.
I would like to be able to reproduce what I imagine but the dexterity of my hands does not allow it for the moment I do not have your experience. I'm on a project to melt metal and cast lost wax bronze. I have copper and tin in my workshop. A few years ago, I had fun pouring beeswax candles into silicone molds, the wax I had bought from a beekeeper. I don't have a post to submit to you on this subject but I will do one when I receive the material to melt the metal. My difficulty will be to produce the representation to be molded.
You devote a lot of your time to the hive and treat yourself more often and given your creativity you should create a lot more of it for us to benefit from your work. Thanks again see you soon my friend!
I really appreciate your kind words and extremely thoughtful response. I really like the way you detailed what about this work spoke to you. Thanks for appreciating the details and for the encouragement to create and share more often! I do appreciate that very much my friend.
It was also cool to hear about your blackbird experience. I am sure at the rate you are going... you will be able to get her eating out of your hand in no time. I just recently found that you can use dry oatmeal to soak up bacon grease (instead of throwing it out) and then toss the oatmeal out for the birds. I thought that was such a clever way to use the oats and give the birds something extra! Thanks for keeping an eye out for the cats too. I have had to run off a cat or two and even a hawk a couple of times. hahhah
I love bees also. It would be cool to raise a colony or two. I think your shop sounds awesome and i bet working with metal and wax is extremely challenging. I hope your creations go well and that you can document it with your amazing photography for a super cool post.
Thanks again for stopping by and appreciating my art and for taking the time to comment in such a meaningful way.
I like what you do and I like who you are as well. Before being on hive I was taking pictures without even really realizing what I was producing. I made them and stored them in a hard drive and that's all I was done. Some photo forgotten for more than 7 years. But your encouragement to produce forced me to go back to my hard drives and take all the photos I had taken and realize that some photos were very interesting. You allowed me to open my eyes to a part of me that is creativity. I confess that I thought I had no artistic taste but in fact no. In fact, it's me who has to thank you!
Quelle belle chose à dire. C'est très humiliant et gratifiant à entendre. Cela me fait du bien de savoir que vous avez été encouragé et inspiré par tout ce que j'ai dit. Vous êtes très talentueux et créatif. Merci pour notre amitié et merci beaucoup pour vos aimables paroles. Restez encouragé et inspiré et j'ai hâte de voir plus de vos photographies et de votre art créatifs. Beaucoup d'amour pour vous!
Merci beaucoup