EXAMPLES OF GOURD DEEDS SHOW EXALTS A GROWING ART.Byline: Becky Oskin Staff Writer ARCADIA - Hundreds of artisans and collectors who adore gourds strolled through the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Arboretum arboretum: see botanical garden. arboretum Place where trees, shrubs, and sometimes herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes. An arboretum may be a collection in its own right or a part of a botanical garden. Saturday, where workshops, classes and displays were offered as part of the third annual Gourd gourd (gôrd, g  rd), common name for some members of the Cucurbitaceae, a family of plants whose range includes all tropical and subtropical areas and extends into the temperate zones. Fair LA. The oddly-shaped, humble fruits begin as dusty beige or golden brown gourds, but are transformed into utilitarian containers and fanciful works of art, even instruments, by cultures around the world. They come in names like Dipper dipper, common name for the only aquatic member of the order Perciformes (perching birds) found near cold mountain streams. With their short, stubby wings and tails and their thick brownish plumage, dippers are thought to be closely related to the wrens. , Hercules Bulb and Crown of Thorns crown of thorns Christ thus ridiculed as king of Jews. [N.T.: Matthew 27:29; Mark 15:17; John 19:2–5] See : Mockery . It's possible to grow gourds at home on their trailing vines, but the long curing times and delicate nature of some newly picked gourds make unfinished fruits a popular seller at the Gourd Fair. The seeds inside larger gourds can sound like the ocean's roar as they slide around the hard inner wall. The festival, sponsored by the California Gourd Society and the Los Angeles County Arboretum, will continue from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia. One couple who drove in from Kingman, Ariz., for the festival hauled away more than $150 worth of unfinished gourds. The prices ranged from $2 for gourds the size of Christmas ornaments to $30 and up for large, oval-shape gourds more than two feet wide. Other merchants sold gourds lacquered with bright paint or burnished bur·nish tr.v. bur·nished, bur·nish·ing, bur·nish·es 1. To make smooth or glossy by or as if by rubbing; polish. 2. To rub with a tool that serves especially to smooth or polish. n. until they took on a wood-like stain. Peruvian artist Julio Seguil Rios offered intricately carved gourds with tiny figures and animals set against scenes of the Andes. Through a translator, Rios said he began carving gourds when he was 8 years old. Taught by his parents, Rios relies on a nail embedded in a dowel dowel /dow·el/ (dou´'l) a peg or pin for fastening an artificial crown or core to a natural tooth root, or affixing a die to a working model for construction of a crown, inlay, or partial denture. to create the detailed patterns. ``Each of his pieces has a story behind it,'' said Carmen Carmen throws over lover for another. [Fr. Lit.: Carmen; Fr. Opera: Bizet, Carmen, Westerman, 189–190] See : Faithlessness Carmen the cards repeatedly spell her death. [Fr. Marquez, a member of the California Gourd Society helping translate for Rios. Some people decorated their own gourds in painting classes. A knobby gourd with a birdlike figure took on the colors of a phoenix in the hands of Pasadena resident Joy Feather Hart. ``I fell in love with gourds many years ago, but now is the first time I've started to make art with them. They are the most amazing things,'' Hart said. Patricia Boyd sold African-themed figures she creates from gourds. The nationally recognized artist grew up in Pasadena, said husband Herb Boyd. Boyd now lives in Lancaster, where she has her studio and stores gourds waiting for transformation. ``She stores them in the studio, the garage and anywhere else she can stick them,'' Herb Boyd said. Becky Oskin, (626) 578-6300 becky.oskin(at)sgvn.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: McKenzie Birnie, 65, of La Verne puts the finishing touches on a piece during a class at Gourd Fair LA on Saturday at the Arboretum in Arcadia. Sarah Reingewirtz/Staff Photographer |
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