Jaci Dawn

I was walking around Goodwill today, just looking. There’s always fascinating stuff at Goodwill and I like to drop in once a week to search for silk blouses (which I then cut up & use in projects as silk is the very best fabric for painting and creating things). It’s much cheaper to purchase an old silk shirt at Goodwill than it is to purchase new silk fabric.

In the back of our local Goodwill, there are short aisles crammed with things people discard: ceramics, wooden things, metal things, electronics, frames, toys.

I found this goose back there.

I picked her up and gave her a skeptical look. I tried to set her back down, but her pleading yellow eyes and the bad paint job just screamed at me.

PAINT ME! PLEASE!

“Pretty please? What happened to me was not my fault. It was a crime. You can fix me…”

The basic bones of the goose are good. She’s 23″ (58.4cm) tall and made out of 1″ (2.5cm) thick plywood. Not chipboard: plywood. She’s solid. Her feet (foot?) is screwed on with two screws. Her eyes are perfectly lined up.

I’m thinking I can make her one species of goose on one side and another goose on the other side.

It would have to be similar species, but I think I could pull it off.

I’ll be poring through guide books, trying to decide. Whatever I do, I’ll have to be very careful painting that foot (those feet?): some geese have black feet and some have orange feet. I want this goose (these geese?) to blend nicely.

I’ll probably get rid of that stupid hat.

Can’t you hear her whispering, “Save me…”??