tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463885736716536952011-10-29T09:47:16.659-07:00Art created with passion, whimsy and pure joy.Candice Westberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08562132622665403810noreply@blogger.comBlogger441100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246388573671653695.post-1221833506251588142011-10-29T09:47:00.000-07:002011-10-29T09:47:16.672-07:00

(This photo copyright of Lane Community College)20x16.5x10"Stoneware, oil paints

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These are my Lady Bird plaques. These were created in an attempt to represent aspects of human/albeit female nature of one vein or another. The Cassowary (on the right) has been sculpted on a pregnant torso and this fits as the Cassowary is renown for leaving her egg with the male and promptly heading out to find a new mate, with whom she will leave that egg with as well. The budgerigar (on the

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This post is for those events that need to see us in action. At the Douglas County Fair in 2010: At the Lane County Fair in 2010: Several happy customers:

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My love affair with birds goes back as far as I can remember, well, maybe not quite that far. Anyone who has met me knows before too long that birds and I are pretty inseparable. I don't mean physical birds, like pets, as I do not have any right now. I mean the presence of birds in my mind and in my work. I possess quite a few bird-themed items, however, I am particular about exactly what kinds

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It was hard narrowing my OCAC portfolio selection to just twenty images. Yeah, just twenty. So, I'd like to share some pieces of mine that did not make the cut, but that I love just as much. "Bear" Pen and ink This piece is a bit older than I would have liked, which was one of the reasons it was removed from the selection. Remember Rapidograph? Yeah, they drove me nuts too. But I managed to pull

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Here is the finished painting for your viewing pleasure: "Denali"36"x24"

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I have been volunteering at the Cascades Raptor Center since June of 2010. My time there has been so incredible. I had several reasons for choosing the raptor center as where I wanted to spend my time, one was that I needed volunteer experience on my resume, two was that I have been crazy for birds since I was in grade school and three was that I was hoping to find my muse. And you know, I found

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About a month ago I submitted my application and portfolio to the Oregon College of Art and Craft (OCAC) and have been waiting on pins and needles since. This past Friday the admissions office called me up to tell me that my application had been accepted and that they would like to offer me a $6,000 annually renewable scholarship. What?? I was in shock. I missed most of the rest of the

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I have been taking my sweet time in finishing this piece. I am casually calling her the "Iguana". The torso for this piece was made in class last term, but that wasn't enough, I had to get in there and do crazy things to her! The question of "what head should I use" seemed a simple one to answer, but as I rifled through my numerous animal books, it was anything but. I began sculpting a deer but

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Pretty Bird went into the heat a couple of weeks ago and I nearly turned blue from holding my breath. I handed her over to my ceramics teacher on a Friday morning and watched with a mother's eye over his shoulder as he loaded her into her own tiny kiln, closed the lid, and punched in her sentence. All I could do was wait. Monday morning I hurried over to the ceramics lab and made my way to the

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I love taking before and after pictures of my work, although I don't do it nearly as much as I should. The images on the left have one day of classwork left on them. The images on the right show what the piece looked like after I spent several days on it at home. I took pictures of the fabric that was underneath the model so I could work on that detail at home. Being my third figure sculpture

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If you haven't seen Ellen Tykeson's work, go check out her site now. Don't look later, look now. She is absolutely amazing. I have taken a year's worth of figure sculpting classes with Ellen and have learned so much. I will be forever grateful. At the end of this last term she opened up her home studio to her students for the first time. We were a very lucky bunch. Here are some pictures from

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Faye is a hyacinth macaw with dreams bigger than the jungles of her homeland could contain. After a lifetime of hopes left unrealized and dreams only half awake she is breaking out and making her debut here with aspirations of stardom. She is witty, smart, flamboyant and with talent to spare. When asked if she was a "natural blue" she simply smiled and replied, "I'll never tell". Her greatest

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Here is a small selection of caricautures that I drew while at the Douglas County Fair last week. I wish I had taken more pictures. Included here are some new themes that we have added to our list including the knight and the bubble bath. The girl on the pig was one of four 4H members that I drew with their prize winning critter over the course of the week. I drew two girls on their horses and

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Tony and I had a rare opportunity to wander through the Douglas County fairgrounds at 7:30 this morning, several hours before the fair would open its doors to the public. It was a unique experience since I've never wandered through a fair without the cacophony of noise and motion that are part of its experience. It was a bit creepy, a ghost town of sorts. Here are some random pictures I took and

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I didn't end up taking pictures of the workshop this time around, but here is the finished product at least. Brian, Wendy and Toby Froud offered a mask-making workshop this morning for a couple of hours. I enjoyed it quite a bit, as I always do. Brian led the workshop on his signature foliate mask technique. It was neat to see everyones masks develop. As Brian mentioned at one point, we all

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This is the laughing wolf jester completed. *whew!* I don't think I've ever taken quite so long to finish a custom piece for anyone. I created the otter jester for this woman and it was completed within a couple of weeks I believe once we got the details hammered out. But if you look at the previous post, this wolf has been hanging in there for at least a couple of months now. I felt really bad

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This summer has been so busy for us that more than a few wonderful projects have been put aside. For a bit too long in some instances. This is a beautiful piece that I began, quite a while ago, and I have recently picked it up again. This laughing wolf head has grown from my original idea. It is larger than I normally make jesters and with all his teeth has taken more time than I had allotted

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I have begun a custom dodo bird jester. I am thrilled by this piece as it encompasses several subjects that I just love including birds and extinct animals. I have an intense passion for birds of any kind. Ask my family, they're tired of it already! I am especially interested in birds brought to extinction by the hand of man. This includes the Carolina Parrot, the Passenger Pigeon and our famous

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If you make it down to the market, look for us! I recently added the red flag banner to our umbrella. It makes us look just a touch more fund and festive! That's my honey awaiting our next customer. My caricature easel is on the left. Every weekend we hang sample balloons from our umbrella to dance with customers as they drift past. Our mermaid in the foreground is and especially accomplished

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Yesterday I worked the BRING Recycle Fair with some fellow Eugene Etsy artists. This was only the second month that this event has been going on so the scant dozen vendors was quite a showing to last months four! I believe that at least half, if not more, of the vendors are on Etsy. My favorite part was the networking. I enjoyed chatting with artists I had not yet met and am crossing my fingers

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We lucked out this past Saturday and had our best location yet. It certainly helped that the weather was bearable this time around! Here are a couple of caricatures I did this Saturday. I actually drew two separate couples in the wedding theme. Why I didn't take a picture of the first one, I'm not sure. It was so much fun though. They had requested that the groom-to-be be wearing a kilt! I love

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I love these two caricatures! I drew them this past Saturday while sitting in the insanely hot sun at the market. I am having so much fun drawing caricatures again. I am breaking out of my box and the boxes that were put upon me years ago when I began my training. I loved when this girl requested to be riding an orca whale. Fortunately I painted one a few years ago and remembered quite a bit of

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I am currently living with some people who are not terribly earth-aware. They go through paper towels and paper plates by the truck loads it seems. I have tried to push for earth conscience ways, but they are old and set in their ways and just smile at me. ARGH! So, a have begun creating my own re-usable items at home. These are fabric napkins. They are sewn together with old pieces of my sons

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Here are just a few more examples of some of the caricatures I offer:

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I first learned to draw caricatures six years ago while living in Las Vegas. I worked for a very prestigious company there, Art Enterprises Inc. I had the opportunity to work in the Mandalay Bay Resort Casinos which included, Circus Circus, Monte Carlo, Excalibur, Luxor and Mandalay Bay of course. I worked with them full time for two years before finally needing to move back to the beautiful

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The Saturday Market has been running for a month and a half now and we are having a blast! Here is a fellow vendor who purchased a customized fairy for his sister-in-law.This little girl was just tickled to have our entire butterfly princess package that includes a crown, wings and a matching butterfly wand. Her sister was just as happy with a little unicorn!The mermaid is one of our most popular

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The kittens are now about a week and a half old and their eyes are beginning to open. The little ginger (orange) kitten now has a home to go to when he's old enough and I have been informed that his name is Hobbs.

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Finally, this sweet little fella is finished and ready for his new home. This river otter was a custom order through my etsy shop. The sky is the limit! I am always thrilled with custom orders because they often point me in a direction that I have not been before. The creation of this little fella help land a month-long gallery showing this fall with the promise of more spirit-animal related

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Here is the finished mask from my post back in February. If you look closely you can see it in the February post off to the right of my desk, naked and waiting. It was a lot of fun, but certainly more time consuming than I remember paper mache to have been. Although perhaps I wasn't quite the perfectionist then that I am today!I apologize for the lack of quality in the photograph. I took the

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One of the little black kittens didn't quite make it to one week old. So sad. Nature knows best I suppose.

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With a little leg work I am beginning to get my work out and about in town. Last fall I was able to create some adorable magnets for the Sweet Life Patisserie . I have updated their collection several times since then. The magnets have gotten cuter and more refined since then. This is the most recent collection I brought to them:I also recently was able to get my appliqued onesies into Sweet

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I have been sculpting goddesses in one form or another for nearly twenty years now. I began when I was in grade school and my aunt requested some for her shop. I was thrilled! My first wholesale order! Needless to say, they're back! I am adding them slowly to my Etsy shop but here are the few added already for your enjoyment:There are perhaps a dozen or so more already made that I will be adding

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It has been too long since I've updated my blog. I hope that all of you will forgive me!I have been keeping myself very busy these past couple of weeks with art on every level. Not too long ago I received an order for two custom jesters. I have been spending my time studying river otters and wolves. The otter is now sculpted and painted and even has all of his whiskers so I am setting him down to

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So... I return to the Veneta Community Center to collect my little Siamese cat at promptly eight o'clock in the evening. I am standing outside amongst so many other cat owners and collectors (the service specializes in fixing feral cats). The head vet comes outside in the fading light to de-brief us on the day's events. "We fixed 77 cats today," she began, "54 of which were female..." She goes on

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Or Sasha that is! My poor, poor little kitty. I've been putting off getting her fixed for nearly six years now. I'd like to say it was because I just didn't have the money. But I'm sure that at one point during those six years, I did. The truth be told, I have been terribly lazy about the whole situation. Where I am living now there are at least two un-altered male cats roaming about the house.

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Oh happy me! It has seemed quite a long winter without the Saturday Market. But alas, this weekend was day one of a new season! Tony and I were excited to get out of the house, whatever the reason! And I'm sure he was happy to yank me out of the studio for a day. Although I hit my first wall of baby-separation when we left our son Vincent with his grandmother Saturday morning. I did not see them

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Hot chocolate... *sigh* how I will miss you.This is probably my all time favorite drink. If it could be called one. Perhaps it's really just a liquid desert. Either way, I have finally taken control of my eating and exercise and hot chocolate is not in the plan. I'm sorry to see you go little fella. Some day, we will meet again and I shall treasure every sinful drop! Funny thing about New Year's

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I have been working on this sun jester for... well... far too long! Every time I sit down to it I want to do more, paint more, sculpt more. I finally called the painting finished recently and glazed it. There! That part's done. But now more than just a jester, I am feeling that he needs hands. So... I am now sculpting hands and am creating the body in my mind. I have picked out the material for

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I am exhausted! I have been trying all week to ready my jewelry for my etsy shop. http://www.candicewestberg.etsy.com/ I spent at least two hours today taking and editing pictures of only about two dozens items. Being such a perfectionist can be annoying at times, but I wouldn't give it up. And don't get me wrong, I'm only a perfectionist when it comes to my artwork.My studio space is a mess!I

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Truthfully, just one delicious book. Last weekend while heading back to home from Vancouver I stopped and picked up Faeries of Dreamdarkhttp://www.amazon.com/Faeries-Dreamdark-Blackbringer-Laini-Taylor. Finished it yesterday. I love it! I cried twice. First when Magpie woke up missing Maniac and then at the end... Beautiful book Laini! I can't wait to get my hands on Silksinger. I will keep my

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It has been soo long since I've written. Of course, I'm saying that as though I've kept an on going blog for years. As you may have noticed, I've only made two entries. Yup, just two. My travels on the internet have been sparse this past year as my little family has moved to the edge of town on a 50 some-odd acre plot and only get dial-up. Yes, it still exists. And yes, it's all I know now. To

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Such an interesting week. Our little Vincent, due date September 20th, arrived August 22nd. Let me tell you what a surprise that was! We are led to believe however that his due date was not accurate, by several weeks. As it's something we've suspected throughout most of the pregnancy. He was a healthy 7lbs. 9 oz. and 19" long. Had he stayed in to term the little fella might have been able to walk

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Things finally seem to be moving in a productive direction. Tony and I are anxiously awaiting the arrival of our son, Vincent, expected sometime in September. For the past month and a half or so we have been working at the Eugene Saturday Market, building our reputation and our points. We have found a niche for my creative balloons that seems to have gone over quite well. I am excited to finally

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