Orcas Island Education Foundation also picks a theme art project and invites artist to join the fun and
create whatever! This year we had a choice between a wooden egg or a larger paper mache' egg. I chose
the wooden egg. After sanding the egg I lightly sponged the entire egg with a silver iridescent shimmer
paint. I then tried to stamp a vine image on the egg, this was a little tricky because I had to roll the egg
and move the stamp at the same time, the stamp measures the size of my hand! Next step was to break
out the wood burning tool and trace over the stamped image, I learned how to use different shaped tips
on the tool for different affects. I then burned positive affirmations in the remaining blank areas of the stamp.
Before I started all of this I invited a friend over to plaster cast my hands for a base of the egg. I didn't
want the base to be flashy or anything like that. In fact I assumed how ever one the bid to just throw
the hands away. Anyway, I spent many hours sanding down the plaster hands before painting them.
I stuffed each hand with plastic bags closed them off and painted one white and one black, for a special
touch I make a pewter bracelet. The fundraiser was held in the spring of this last year. I never know who
wins the auction on the stuff I made!
