These were awesome.
Karen was warm and affable, very pleasant and compelling to listen to. During her talk she showed images of her alternately quirky and lifelike glass dogs, tree branches, flowers and owls. The owls and birds were of particular interest to one of the More Fire girls, who brought in three live ones to spread awareness about the not-for-profit Wild Wings program, which I believe she co-directs. From their website: "Wild Wings is a not-for-profit educational organization that houses and cares for permanently injured birds of prey (raptors) which are unable to survive on their own in the wild any more."
I really wanted to take the class that was being offered with Karen over the weekend, but unfortunately there was no way I could afford it. I did return the following night to watch Karen's two-hour demo, during which she went the route of gaudy and vibrant as opposed to realistic and lifelike, which makes sense since the realistic things she makes take way longer. In two hours she cranked out a surfboard, a bulldog, a poodle, and a wave, and put the surfboard on the wave, the bulldog on the surfboard, and the poodle on the bulldog dominatrix-style. It was amazing how well she got the proportions down! She made the head of the poodle first (and probably the bulldog, but I missed that one), kept it warm in the garage, and then made the body without having any size reference other than straight-up memory. And when she put them together, they were perfect. Crazy. I didn't get very good photos, but maybe if you look closely you can get some idea of what this thing looked like. (Click to see full-size)
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