CactushillAZ: Art Dolls

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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

August update

This is an AZ old guy.

Backside

Just kicking back and being lazy. I have finished a few ufo's . Three trolls from a Ute Vasina pattern,(Norman) Az old cooger hunter from a pattern by Nancy Gawron (Flap) A fancy doll from Mary Tressler Pattern .

Mary's pattern in chemise undies

here she is finished, also two masked ball dolls from Arley's class at CIFI.

I am entering an art doll for the Breast Cancer Awareness Fund Raiser Save the TA Tas. This is sponsored by Gallery 225 and Dollie Mama and the Fabric Floozie Doll Club in AZ. All art dolls will be on display starting Oct 9 thru the 15th. I am working on this so I don't have pictures yet.

It is hot and dry almost everything in the garden has dried up. I was looking to add some color to the yard. I love working with colored glass, but not really up to doing big projects. I found the

garden junk forum and have copied a few ideas from there. These are garden spheres and stands made from recycled objects. Smashed plates, glass, mirrors etc. not finished yet, but working on them hope to be finished soon.

Friday, October 2, 2009

Fall is here

The days have gotten shorter and cooler. Life just got in the way of keeping up with postings. I made a few dolls, did some art work, and loafed away the summer. I entered a doll in Treasures of Gypsy Challenge in Houston. Her name is Irisha Pennie meaning Rainbow Weaver.
She is my original pattern. Irisha Pennie was enchanted by her God Mothers with Happiness and Happy Thoughts and Pearls of Wisdom. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
When Irisha followed the family tradition of weaving cloth, she put a happy thought and pearls of wisdom with a sprinkle of that perfume with each piece of fabric she made.

I have been changing things around in the yard. Nothing major, just repotting cactus, and rearranging containers., deciding what to do with all of the stuff I had been collecting for projects. I did make a shade structure for some of the babies. I had this old wooden reel that the boys used as a flat surface in the garage. All it did was collect stuff. I cleared out the garage and rolled it outside. I needed help to load it into the truck to take to the dump, so it just sat. I decided that it would make a nice place for my plants. I made a roof for it using shadecloth so the rain water the babies. I had baskets of broken china for doing a someday project. I mosaiced a couple of table tops for outside use. Will post pictures later.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Two Dragonfly Art Dolls Finished

COPPERFYRE AND VIRIDIANA,

I finally finished the art dolls from an online class by Sherry Goshen through Doll Street Dreamers. There were a lot of new techniques for me to learn. Layering colors by sponging, How to use Apoxie Sculpt, Spectrum sculpt and paper clay. How to make a fancy base . I painted the bodies by dry brushing on gold metallic acrylics over flesh color. I used gold, purple, green, blue, copper metallics to dry sponge on the colors. I wanted lots of subtle colors. These art dolls are really glitzy.

I finally decided on the wings for these dolls. I did them in stained glass. The younger Copperfyre wanted hers in fire colors, after I had made a set in the colors of the pond water. Viridiana (Italian "green") was perfectly happy with her wings in teal and blue water colors.

Copperfyre really likes to go hunting for treasures of the pond. She is giving Viridiana some of her treasures. She found tumbled and shiny rocks in the water and desert roses above the banks of the pond, while she was drying off in the desert sand.

This was a fun class. I am happy with how my projects turned out. I cannot wait until CIFI Conference at the end of May to meet up with Sherry and to see what new things I will learn there.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Conference Information

Doll Classes in Albuquerque

I am going to the Creations in Fiber Conference in Albuquerque, at the end of May. When you register, you have to decide what classes you want to take. The choices are amazing. I really had a hard time deciding. I just wish I did not have to decide I am still wishy washy wanting to take all of the classes. Here are the links showing what the choices are:
There is a camel by Nancy Gawron, and his sidekick, Biddy Bird
http://web.mac.com/pattipage/CreationsInFiberInc/Nancy_Gawron_.html
http://web.mac.com/pattipage/CreationsInFiberInc/Nancy_Gawron__2.html

Mary Tresslers wonderful film characters, Carmen Jones, Moulin Rouge, Westside Story,
http://web.mac.com/pattipage/CreationsInFiberInc/Mary_Tressler.html

Sherry Goshen and Jean Bernard creation
http://web.mac.com/pattipage/CreationsInFiberInc/Jean_Bernard_and_Sherry_Goshon.html

This is the class that I chose, because it has a lot of new stuff for me to play with,
Click on the link for a picture of their creation. I hope to learn a lot from them.

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