I enjoyed making my Victorian Art Doll so much that I had to try another one. Altho the picture is not so hot...the colors are off, they are much more gold and orange...she represents the Fall Season. I named her Golden Spell because I used some paint chip samples for part of her dress and one was named Golden Spell. Using a book for her skirt is so much fun, I never know how she's going to turn out. Her wings are store bought sheer wings that I painted with Lumiere and sparkley stuff. These dolls are so easy to make, but I think they turn out beautifully. I'm quite pleased with this little girl!
The Fairies and Elves Art group is doing a coffee table sized chunky. This is the first chunky I've done in this size and it was a lot of fun and a nice change to work in this larger size. The theme, Things that Scare Me has to include a fairy of some sort. I decided to do a fairy being scared and found a lot of cool clip art for my images. The background paper is from the free paper in Somerset Studio and when I saw it, I knew it was perfect! The blue skull is cut from fabric and my fairy fit perfectly on top. The little tombstone is a wooden doll house shingle. Won't the final chunky be fun?
My on-line friend, Tammy, is hosting a fabric inchies swap. They are really inch and a halfies, as sewing on a one inch square is quite challenging! I had a lot of fun with these, especially using the retro fabric for the background. When they are cut into individual pieces, the fabric gives each one a different look. Then the fun part...embellishing! Thank you, Tammy, for another fab swap!
I always thought dolls were kind of goofy..what's the point? Then I bought Somerset's Art Doll Quarterly and my whole concept changed. Wow! So, of course, I had to try to make some. I've made a couple of paperdolls, a big felted doll and a smaller felted doll. I decided to try one using a book for the skirt. I whacked a book in half, no easy task, and folded the pages to create the skirt. Then I just went to town dressing her. She was a ton of fun to make and guess what, I still have the other half of the book!
My Birds Quiltie is another September entry. We've been all a twitter in the Fabric In Altered Art group about "doodle birds", so no surprise, I had to do a doodle bird. I drew the bird on muslin, painted it with Lumiere and sprayed the background with Adirondack Color Wash. All this talk about birds has made them show up in my work a lot lately!
In the BookArtz group, we're doing skinny book shaped like a house. We're doing what house and home means to us. This is my submission...the little pocket holds 6 tags with words that mean home to me...comfort, security, love, blessings, heritage and family. I seem to always have my family's ancestors in the back of mind and I wanted to try to honor them with a vintage look. The background of this piece is a page from the phone book, aged with glazes and inks. I think it will a lot of fun to see what the other particiapants do with this great theme.
We're having a much needed rain right now, it's been so dry here. Lots of thunder and lightning, but worth it to get the rain. That reminded me of this piece that I made in a Stampscapes class a couple of weeks ago. I had some Stampscapes stamps, but didn't really know what to do with them, so I decided to take the class. It was a ton of fun and I liked how this one came out.
These are my completed inchies for 2 swaps in the Inchies group. Inchies are little one square inch works of art, quite a challenge, but a lot of fun. The two swaps are themed..Red and Women. I'm always amazed at how big these things look in a photo, and how small they are in person!
