Friday, October 31, 2008

Doll

Two days of embellishing and much more to go . She is still changing with each passing day. I am taking these pictures at night, so they are not the best in the world. Today I embellished her hair with beads. In my world the fairies love to wear their finds wrapped in their hair. I also added sea glass going down the front of her dress. I have wrapped beads with wire until my fingers are raw. This is the part I love, yet it also the part that tries my patience. I will have lots of fun with the crown, I can't wait to get started on that. I am getting ready to take a few days and sculpt. I decided to purchase Wendy Froud's sculpting DVD. I saw a little clip of it today and just can not wait for that to arrive. Another doll artist told me about it. I hope everyone has a great weekend. My son is in a surf competition, so I will be on the beach. I have also been invited to attend a doll club in my area, that should be fun! I just received my dolls back from California and will be taking them to share with the group.


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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

The face has been repainted


I did not accomplish as much as I had hoped. I fixed the face and these colors will look better in the end. She was just too pale looking for the color palette. I had to go on another gathering mission. I an trying to decide if I want her to have feathers. I thought the feathers might be cool as the hair, but I can't seem to make up my mind. I will sleep on it and decide tomorrow. I did do some beading today. It is all the tiny details that take up so much time.

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Doll update

Yesterday I managed to get her to this point. Another layer. The color combination is coming from a necklace I made not to long ago. I wanted to share that, but it could not be found. I'll keep looking. I am realizing with each doll that is made that I need to skinny them up a bit because of so much embellishing. Another thing I am realizing at this point that the face is going to need to be changed and that has to be done now before I go any further. I have also been thinking about future dolls. I need them to have more movement. In my head I know what I want them to be, but am having a hard time making it happen. I have purchased a few new products and will be working on that in the weeks to come. I love paper clay, but I am thinking of switching pack to polymer because of dry time. You can put paper clay in a low temp oven for faster drying, but it can look dry on the outside, but still be wet on the inside, so even though they are put in the oven, they usually sit a week before any painting takes place, just to be sure. I've rambled on enough for today. hopefully I will make more progress. I am still working on the studio and it's starting to come together.I work on the doll and then switch gears and work on the studio.

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Monday, October 27, 2008

Progress of doll

Before talking about the doll, I have some exciting news to share! My dolls will be in the winter issue of Art Doll Quarterly. I already have the magazine and they did a beautiful job with the photography. The cover is a doll by Marilyn Radzat and it is gorgeous! There is a funny side to being in the same magazine with her, because she is the very reason I started doing Art Doll. Before making art dolls, I made soft dolls and bears. I saw her dolls and went out immediately to buy clay. I am a huge fan and just really admire her work. I have her as a link on my sidebar.
Time to embellish! My favorite part! The gathering has taken place.

The first layer is on and can you guess what it is?
Did you guess wrapping paper?

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Sunday, October 26, 2008

Not Again!

It took a little time, but I have changed my blog template again. I would have kept the other one, but I was not able to change the colors. I also decided to delete my other blogs and just work on this one and that is the reason some of you are seeing the dolls again. I transfered the doll posts from my other blog to this one.

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Fairy Dust




FAIRY DUST:
Ground Rose Petal
Ground Lavender flower
Ground Violet
( the above should be dry plant materials.)
For every 1/4 cup of combined dried flowers mix in 1 heaping tablespoon of china or white clay or rice powder. ( this helps to blend the mixture and keep it dry and easy to throw and dust around) Sift together and then add a bit of fine glitter or mica. you can add gold, blue, silver, or any color you like. Add a few drops of essential oil of your choice and blend.
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This is Star. She is an angel of the sea. She is sculpted with creative paperclay. Her body is cloth over a wire armature and the face is hand painted. She is dressed with a collage of textiles, beads, fibers, feathers, vintage findings, and bought and found treasures of the sea. Her crown is a large shell and the shell is embellished with small shells. She is holding a beautiful piece of driftwood and it is embellished with shells and pearls. I made the wings with coffee stained cheesecloth.

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This is Star. She is an angel of the sea. She is sculpted with creative paperclay. Her body is cloth over a wire armature and the face is hand painted. She is dressed with a collage of textiles, beads, fibers, feathers, vintage findings, and bought and found treasures of the sea. Her crown is a large shell and the shell is embellished with small shells. She is holding a beautiful piece of driftwood and it is embellished with shells and pearls. I made the wings with coffee stained cheesecloth.

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This is Sandy. A beach fairy nestled in a mermaid crown. The mermaid crown is made from the abundant wild grapevine that grows along the coast. This little fairy is very happy because legend has it that if you should happen to find a mermaid crown, which is very rare, you will receive the gift of enchantment and and an eternal youthful spirit. This little mermaid is fully sculpted using paperclay. She sat around in the studio for a long time. I had painted her, but was not happy with the results, so I decided to make a sand sculpture and that did not work either. Again, I put her to the side and a few more years went by. Then one day I thought -If I could just get all the sand off her, so I took a heat gun to her in hopes that it would help me remove the glue. It was not easy, but it looked kinda cool, a little paint coming off with the sand. It worked for me so then the embellishment started and here she is.

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Some dolls I have to keep and this is one of them. She is a medicine woman to the beach fairies.

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Angel



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Sculpted with Super Sculpey

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Paperclay-twenty-four inches tall


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This is Seaglass. She is a beach fairy. She is sculpted using creative paperclay. Her face is hand painted. I wanted her to have long eyelashes, so I took a natural hair brush and cut some of the bristles and used them for lashes. She is really embellished. I did a little free form crochet, wire crochet, and beading. I painted and dyed the fabrics she is wearing. The wings are made of wire and fiber. She is embellished with beads and findings.

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Friday, October 17, 2008

Halloween in the Studio



First came the wreath filled with spiders and not knowing what to do next, I flipped open the magazine right on this page. A sign to make these little birds. Be warned these little things are addictive! You can not make just one. This is link to the designer and her blog- Mattie's Social Circle





This is Daisy and she is another Woodkin, I thought she wood fit in perfectly since she has that witchy look about her
A freaky snake! I just had to share this wonderful creation because it was made by my youngest son. I must first tell you that he does not do things like this. He is half fish and half man and can not sit still for more than fifteen minutes. He has always been this way! LOL. He came into the studio while I was working on the dress form and before I knew it he was picking things up and making something. I Love it! This is him doing what he loves most.





















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