Gallery Walk
On the 1st day of November, incidentally Sarah's birthday, Hempel Studios hosted its very first open studio as a participant in downtown Frederick's First Saturday Gallery Walk. It also happened to be Sarah's 26th birthday, so there was much celebration! Amidst the merriment, tragedy struck: Sarah lost the only corkscrew at the studio! Her friend and produce supplier, Jim, asked for a power drill, a 3" drywall screw and a pair of pliers. As her brother, Buck, held the wine bottles, Jim inserted a screw into each cork and pulled it out with lineman's pliers. Meanwhile, Reiner, Sarah's favorite model, ran to the corner liquor shop (only a half block away) and bought a new corkscrew for a dollar. "Yeah, we could have done that," Buck and Jim replied in unison. Well, at least the crisis was averted!
(Pictured to the right: Sarah upstairs in the gallery space of the studio at 116 1/2 with artwork by Grace Ellis Barber. Below: Farmer Jim and Brother Buck with drywall screws and pliers opening some merlot!)
The Blessed Virgin Update
The Blessed Virgin is well on her way to being completed-at least in clay! Sarah ordered the stone from Italy and it is on a barge somewhere in the mid-Atlantic right now. She anticipates having a plaster carver's model to the stone carver by January, when she will begin work on the enlarged St. Joseph as well.
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