Friday, March 25, 2011

New Location

 Colonel O'Corn Mask (2008), Tomasito.


Tomasito's Creative Workshop has moved to Temecula--one of California's "new towns", which was literally not here 20 years ago and is now a busy community of 75,000 souls.


The town is designed for automobiles so we'll have to see how it handles the new world of high gas prices and more expensive transport.


But that is not the news for this blog.


The news is that our favorite workshop will begin a series of papier mache projects at the Westview center for handicapped people here in Temecula--and our first session will be on April 1, 2011! (I am tempted to say, "of course", since it is the day for all us fools!)


Our first project will be the construction of masks. The clients and staff are looking forward to something different and so am I.

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Monday, March 14, 2011

Sketch of Maria Reiche





My sketch is based on a  photo portrait in a book about the interesting German  woman, Maria Reiche, who took it upon herself to investigate and preserve the now-famous "Nazca Lines" in Peru.

In her old age her face was a work of art--to me a wonderful thing.


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