Travel Fairy
My nephew graduated from High School in May and his 18 th birthday was in August right before he started college. For his Graduation I had to buy him Dr. Seuss’s “Oh, The Place You Will Go” for every occasion he gets a personal piece of short bus art from me, we call it short bus because I am forever making small mistakes which is my signature so they say. For his birthday I decided to try my hand at another paper clay creature as usual I had no idea what it was going to be until it told me what it was inspire to be. Once it was finished I decided it was a travel fairy for he was traveling from childhood to adulthood and the creation could be his companion. The concept came when I started to make the glasses out of beer caps from Germany (Brau Haus, my hubby lived in Germany in the late 80’s and made beer. He had a lot left over), the hat reminds me of the hat Van Gogh wore in his self-portrait, the dress is made from scrapbook paper with French chapels, and the arms