Okay… here’s my new thing. I make ties. I started with cute short girl ties (pictured below) and over the weekend I made my first full scale version (that’s me wearing it right there.) I really like the short ones but the standard length is fun too. Who wants one? I’ll make one [...]
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New Project: Ties
Posted in Art Projects on October 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A fish postcard in Alaska!!!
Posted in Art Projects on April 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of my fish postcards has a new home… on the refrigerator of Ms. Linzi Corbett of Anchorage, Alaska. with a very cool sock monkey magnet no less…
Fish postcards
Posted in Art Projects on March 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
More fun with watercolor postcards:
Doll Marionette – Work in Progress
Posted in Art Projects on March 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My latest doll…is a doll/bible hybrid. She may not have a soul but her torso is a French bible.
It’s good to know Mr. Skinner
Posted in Art Projects on March 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Watercolor project – postcard homage to an illustration by Doug Skinner. This picture is Mr. Skinner sitting on a park bench singing to the crows and crickets. Doug wrote a song about this and in the last line he intentionally misspells his name “Skimmer”. I attempted to recreate this park bench scene on a postcard [...]
more dolls
Posted in Art Projects on October 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
here’s some stuff I’ve been working on:
more dolls!!!
Posted in Art Projects on August 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The doll project is getting bigger and better…more artsy…less craftsy. My inventory has swelled to about 150 dolls and I have tons of ideas on how I plan to transform them from abandoned toys to wonderful creepy objects. Here’s a selection of “before” shots of dolls I’ve recently acquired.
First doll
Posted in Art Projects on April 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Inspired by the Baby Doll Paperweight in “The Big-Ass Book of Crafts” by Mark Montano (pg 56), I picked up a Kewpie Doll from shopgoodwill.com and plaster of paris and some spray paint from my local hardware store. The doll was 13″ tall before I decapitated it and made it into a creepy paperweight. I [...]
