Inspirations

Sometimes I have to stop myself from seeing everything as a potential cane!   These are from an ad in Birtamod that uses Maithili figures and I especially loved the drummer-very Nepali with a real economy of line!Many of the preparations for Diwali were sources of clay inspriation to the eyes of the faithful.  Part of the festival is the preparation of the rangoli which is made using coloured powders and petals to help entice the goddess Laxmi into the homes.   There are traditional designs and more modern ones and one of the rangolis that the girls did was from something they'd seen on TV!Homes are not just painted for Diwali.  Many of the indigenous groups in the Terai region have a tradition of painting their homes and some of the motifs they use would look great as canes!  In their Creative Sparks book, Dayle Doroshow and Cynthia Tinapple talk about having a note book where you make a short daily sketch of things you see that may later translate into something you make.  I am not always disciplined enough to do this each day but I do carry a notebook and Nepal is the source of many scribbles. I leave my little oasis of cyber activity tomorrow so that's it again for a while.  Happy scribbling.