Here we are, January 2023 with so much left behind and ready to start a new year full of new ideas and good projects. I don't know where to start, there is so much to do and organize so I can show results but I will say that I am eternally thankful to those people who support my art and encourage me to continue painting and creating my Spirit Art Dolls.  
This year I have a few projects to complete, a collection of small canvases that only need highlights and details, including some of the paintings I started and uploaded to this blog. They will be ready at the end of January so please come back to see the results.
My Spirit dolls are growing wings again! I will have some dragonflies, crows and ravens.The animal totems include bunnies too. I just completed a beautiful doll for a client representing the legend of the Jade Rabbit and Moon Goddess Chang'e to celebrate 2023, the Chinese year of the rabbit. 
I wish for you health, love, creativity, time to enjoy your family. 

As I look back on 2019 I wonder how did I made it this far.  This was a very hard year for my family but we are on this side now, remembering how we gathered around mom who passed away in February but  the love we all feel for her and each other got us to this place in Decemberonce more, a place of remembrance and gratitude for all those years shared with her, for her gifts and words of wisdom.  Thanks mom!

When it comes to creativity, I managed to produce a collection of Spirit art dolls in memory of mom, several colorful Sugar Skulls which have found a home and a beautiful workshop of the same.

My shop is at the moment closed because I am currently working on my inventory, but I have posted here a few available Spirit Dolls and if you want to adopt one, please feel free to email me for more details.
I am wishing for you all the blessings you can stand and a marvelous Holiday Season with your family, remember to do something special for yourself.

With Gratitude.  Griselda

This is my process of how I go about doing an oil redwood paintings in progress.

​During my Sugar Skull workshop you will learn many things:
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1. Design the sugar skulls for 3 dolls as well as the basics to develop your own style.
2. Learn how to use acrylics as if you were painting with watercolors, light and simple.
3. Learn to design the sugar skull with a Sharpie 
4. Learn multiple ways to decorate the Sugar skull from two tone black and brown to color
5. Painting and Finishing three different Sugar Skull Spirit Art Dolls
6. Learn to assemblage a figure supported by a kitchen whisk 
7. Lean how to weave a basket or nest with yarn and the whisk  
8. Learn to build the body with tattered cloth, embellishments, yarn, silk flowers and fibers
9. Learn  to find beautiful materials from unexpected places
10. Learn how to make jewelry for your own doll with wire and beads
11. Learn about the origin of the Sugar Skull, Dia de los Muertos tradition.
12. Plus a "secret" bonus project!

Tuition $120
Optional Kit available at Etsy:  (while supplies last)
DVD: Available for pre-oder (ships March 2020)
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Spirit Art Dolls & Sugar Skulls
Griselda Tello
Session Two
July 16 - August 26, 2019

Spirit Art Dolls & Sugar Skulls  * July 16 - August 26 with Griselda Tello
Dear friends, I am back with a new Summer workshop, this time we will be playing with design and acrylic painting over polymer faces to create Sugar Skulls.  If you are familiar with Dia de los Muertos Celebration of life you will be enchanted with this class where you will learn to create your own spirit art dolls.

*Registration Opens June 30
We will be making 3 Sugar Skull, Spirit Art Dolls and a kit with 5 medium size faces and other embellishment items will be available at Etsy for you to buy while the supply lasts. 

I am looking forward to participate with you again this year, please contact me if you have any questions!
​Griselda.

Last year I was invited to teach online which I have never done before and it felt like the opportunity to learn a new way to share my love for art had come at the perfect time in my life.  Looking back I can say, this has been one of the most unique experiences from learning how to videotape myself to organize my videos in a step by step process coupled with keeping a conversation going as if my students were right next to me.
I am so thankful to ArtfulGatheringEvents, specially to Zinnia for her expert couching, patience and also for her vision, she has been so encouraging in every step of the way during this wonderful journey.   
Registrations are open, not only for my class but for 18 other amazing instructors, please come to visit and take a look, may be in here you will find the beginning of another art journey for yourself.

CLASS ENROLEMENT

Workshop Description 

Classroom No. 106
Session One: June 6 - July 17 

For this workshop I have create a sculpture designed with polymer clay and mixed media elements in this instance the themes I have chosen were inspired by my love for the desert and the first people of Arizona. I am teaching students how to create a variety of spirit dolls based on these themes. 
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The Blue Corn Maiden and Sedona Moon are, for me, core symbols of abundance, prosperity and serenity.  The rich colors of the land connected with the stories, lore and traditions of the Native American Hopi and Anasazi people inspired me to make these figures.

The first section of this workshop introduces students to The Blue Corn Maiden's Journey.  These lessons include how to create Kitchen Witches on a whisk attached to a glass jar.

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