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Show - ... 4 ;v 1 . . 5 , K v. " , J v 1 i . jm . . V.- N " ) fv."-:i:: fv- fill IJ Vr ROCK ART Miss Carol Olsen of Far-mington Far-mington doesn't feed her pet rocks, she paints them. Any kind of rock is all right to paint on, Mrs. Olsen says. "Rocks are everywhere you look in Farmington, but you have to fit the rock to the picture," she says. MRS. OLSEN chooses the rock, often from a creek bed, There are many forms of art these days. Some are more lasting than others. Carol Olsen uses rocks for her paintings. and then decides what picture will fit the shape and size of the rock. The pictures are painted with acrylic paints and oil brushes directly on the rock with no initial preparation. After painting, the rocks are sprayed to give them a permanent per-manent finish. Mrs. Olsen says most of her designs aren't originals, but her favorite"a strange looking frog", is. Other designs come from color books and tole painting. Tole painting is an 18th century decorative lacquered finish for metalware. Her owl, mushroom and sunflower rocks are patterned after tole painting designs. MRS. OLSEN first got into rock painting when she picked up a small painted rock in a gift shop in Trolley Square in Salt Lake. She was about to buy it when she saw the $8 price tag. "That's dumb," she toldherself. "Icandothat." A bicentennial rock, with a picture of a drummer boy, was one of her first. Mrs. Olsen placed her first painted rock on display at a garage sale. It didn't sell, so she gave it to her sister, Arlene Jewkes, in Lay-ton. Lay-ton. MRS. JEWKES used the rock for a doorstop and soon neighbors were asking where they could get one. Mrs. Carol Olsen urges purchasers to leave their painted rocks outside, out-side, but most use them for doorstops or art objects inside the house. "They're neat to set in a rock garden," she said. "I leave mine outside all winter," NOW MRS. Olsen has been asked to paint rocks to sell at a bazaar. She's trying to find time to paint four rocks a week on Saturday evenings and Sundays. Most of her weekday hours are taken up caring for her five children and four foster children. The children paint rocks too, she said. The first few rocks were the hardest to paint, she said. "But now they go fast." She had planned to paint a large bicentennial drummer boy on a large rock in her front yard, but never quite finds the time. THE BICENTENNIAL is big with Mrs. Olsen. She made bicentennial costumes for her husband, herself and all the children. They all wore their costumes to church on July 4 and to Lagoon on July 24. Mrs. Olsen's family, along with her sister's family, entered en-tered a family float in the Far-mington Far-mington City and Davis County parades. Both families wore their bicentennial costumes cos-tumes and rode on the float. They won first prize in the Davis County parade. "WE EVEN wore the cos- tumes when we went on tour of the historic spots in the East this year," she said. She said that at first her husband, Gourdin, wasn't sure about the bicentennial look, but on July 24 at Lagoon he wore the costume cos-tume all day without taking off his jacket. Mrs. Olsen says she loves all old things. "We buy a neat antique an-tique every year for our wedding wed-ding anniversary," she said. The first antique, a secretary with a glass front, came from Deseret Industries. "It's the only antique that hasn't had to be re-finished," she said. |