Gentle Hands

5x7 acrylic on masonite panel.

contact me at angelasacrylics@yahoo.com

Hands.....offering....holding....

I love hands!
I had found an wonderful mannequin hand at a flea market in France this summer and wrote about it in my July blog post.
I attached it to a wall of my little studio, draped it with necklaces and other changing treasures and declared that I was now going to collect mannequin hands.

And then I forgot my declaration.....or maybe I just didn't find any to bring home with me.
Until this past Sunday when I went to the garage sale where I found my wonderful paintings.......
and I found more mannequin hands! Seven of them!! Abundance!!


So I screwed a couple of them into the wall beneath my Hundredth Angel piece and I've draped them with treasures.
I love hands!

Little hands, the art of possibility and the Democratic Convention

Bella and Presley love to get their fingers into clay......

Don't you love the little chubby hands of children ?  

Contained in the shape of their fingers is the experience of innocence, trust, wonderment, softness, sweetness, discovery, and oh, yes....most of all...there is the innate energy of possibility. 

So I looked up the definition of possibility...

The power of happening, being, or existing.

Oh, I love that!  Nothing is more powerful than the possibility of being, of existing.

The power of a seed...the possibility of the tiny acorn becoming a giant oak tree. 

Within possibility lies inspiration.... hope and belief in the future.

Tonite the Democratic Convention begins....

Holding an angel....

Today, she is offering an Angel.
We are expecting our 7th granddaughter to arrive in August.
3 daughters and 7 granddaughters!
We are doing our part to populate the earth with goddesses!

Hand out...Hand full...an offering

This is one of my treasures from the flea markets in France....this wonderful hand.
I love hands....I love nests and eggs too....but that's another story.
This hand is from some mannequin somewhere...sometime....but it was waiting for me in a funny little flea market in Paris....lying on a table laden with stuff....calling out to come home with me.

It had a connection attached to the wrist that would have gone into the arm of the mannequin, so I stuck a nail in the wood around the window of my little studio and hung it on the nail...and then applied some apoxie sculpt around it to secure it.

Then I added a sleeve of a dress that I found in the south of France, with wonderful metallic gold lace on it. A treasure in it's own right!

Hmmm....you would think that I would have better things to do than dress a mannequin hand!

And here comes my favorite French phrase... Whaa-LA!

The French say that all the time and I love it!! Whaa-LA!
So each day I will be displaying a new and different treasure...offered and held by my French hand.

I think this hand has a name....hmmm...any thoughts on what it may be?

Today's offering is a necklace that I picked up at a vide grenier. ( means clean out your attic ).
It came with the chain and is a wonderful St. Beatrice medallion.
I added another bauble that I found in Paris to the chain and it is my new favorite necklace!
Whaa-LA!