Well I kind of knew I wouldn't get back as soon as I had hoped...BUT I found another wonderful doll artist, and I'd like to share her talents with you. Her name is Amanda DiVirgilio and she lives halfway across the world from me, judging by her accent in one of the video tutorials. :-) Amanda created www.dollmakersdream.com - a site with some really great tutorials for creating one of a kind art dolls in polymer clay. Please go visit her site, she's incredibly talented and so generous in taking the time and energy to make these tutorials so the rest of us don't have to reinvent the wheel, so to speak. Here's the link directly to her tutorials: Doll Maker's Dream Free-polymer-clay-tutorials.
Without artists like Amanda And Moriah Betterly at MLBetterly.blogspot.com, the rest of us doll artists would be spending a lot more time on research, and a lot less time on the fun stuff! Thanks to both of these generous souls...
Lily/Ruth
The creation of my art is a personal and spiritual journey for me. I have a need to create beauty and light; objects of art and personality that delight the eye and spirit. Every piece I make has blessings and good energy attached when it leaves my hands on its journey to its new owner. Blessings, Ruth Perkins at Lily Rose Moon Art
Monday, May 7, 2012
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Mad Mouton - pics in progress...
Hello again!
I promised you in my last post that I would post the next day about one of my newest projects: a cranky little black and white (or will be after I paint him) sheep named Mad Mouton. Mad because I'm a bit tired of smiling snowmen, and 'Mouton' because it's the French word for sheep (singular and plural) and most anything sounds better in French!
So...here are some bad photos in chronological order of the process creation:
This is his head without eyebrows and topknot. Hm...he looks a bit more scared than irritated, I think.
I promised you in my last post that I would post the next day about one of my newest projects: a cranky little black and white (or will be after I paint him) sheep named Mad Mouton. Mad because I'm a bit tired of smiling snowmen, and 'Mouton' because it's the French word for sheep (singular and plural) and most anything sounds better in French!
So...here are some bad photos in chronological order of the process creation:
This is his head without eyebrows and topknot. Hm...he looks a bit more scared than irritated, I think.
(his eyes are 10 mil glass doll eyes)
He is made of paperclay over a styrofoam ball. This next stage is adding the rest of the face and ears...now he's looking irritated. ;-)...
and stamping swirls onto his body (boy am I gonna do that in two separate steps next time; kept squishing the stamped texture. :-(
adding his legs and front feet...
(This is next to another snowman;
Mouton is mad because I took the pic before
I finished his back hooves. Such a drama queen!)
Mouton is mad because I took the pic before
I finished his back hooves. Such a drama queen!)
At this point all three of them turned their backs on me, the ingrates! But that's okay because you can see his sassy new tail!
Tomorrow I'm gonna upload the pic with his new paint job...and then I'll need opinions on the color scheme. I'm not sure I like it yet.
Nightie night!
Sunday, April 22, 2012
I'm Back!
Hello! I have been horrendously bad about writing my own blog, but now that I'm trying some 3 dimentional work and have some photos, I can post some stuff online...:-)
I'll start with some of my seasonal work in progress - my new line of snowmen characters.
I'd like to thank Moriah Betterly at MLB Studios http://mlbetterly.blogspot.com/ for kicking off my interest in this magical medium of paper clay. I was using polymer clay for my wall hanging spirit dolls, but I prefer this air-dry clay for my 3-D figures.
Thanks Moriah, and congrats on your publication in Art Doll Quarterly; great job! You know I love your work, even though you haven't heard from me in a year! LOL!
Here are some WIP pics:
This is my first snowman character. He is made of paper clay, over a styrofoam ball and wire armature. His hat is a wooden drawer pull with bells hanging from wires coming out the top. He stands in paper clay snow, on a star-shaped box which has been painted red and embossed with gold stars. He is holding a miniature snowman, and a friend of mine, Sandy Arieno, crocheted him a sporty looking red scarf to keep him warm!
This is another of my snowmen. I haven't had a chance to antique him yet...:-(
He is on a wooden base covered in paper clay/styrofoam ball-shaped snow drifts, and is juggling glass beads and a red heart (which are all magically staying in the air thanks to wire and glue! (sorry about the bad quality pics; haven't had a chance to take good ones yet). You can't see it well in this pic, but his belly has been stamped with a heart shape that I've painted glossy red! :-) His gloves will be red too, and I think I'll add some beads on the snows to look like he's dropped them.
Hugs all! Tomorrow I'll be adding pics of another snowman, and also some pics of my latest project, Mad Mouton, who is an irritated sheep. He's really cute when he's mad!
Ruth
I'll start with some of my seasonal work in progress - my new line of snowmen characters.
I'd like to thank Moriah Betterly at MLB Studios http://mlbetterly.blogspot.com/ for kicking off my interest in this magical medium of paper clay. I was using polymer clay for my wall hanging spirit dolls, but I prefer this air-dry clay for my 3-D figures.
Thanks Moriah, and congrats on your publication in Art Doll Quarterly; great job! You know I love your work, even though you haven't heard from me in a year! LOL!
Here are some WIP pics:
This is my first snowman character. He is made of paper clay, over a styrofoam ball and wire armature. His hat is a wooden drawer pull with bells hanging from wires coming out the top. He stands in paper clay snow, on a star-shaped box which has been painted red and embossed with gold stars. He is holding a miniature snowman, and a friend of mine, Sandy Arieno, crocheted him a sporty looking red scarf to keep him warm!
This is another of my snowmen. I haven't had a chance to antique him yet...:-(
He is on a wooden base covered in paper clay/styrofoam ball-shaped snow drifts, and is juggling glass beads and a red heart (which are all magically staying in the air thanks to wire and glue! (sorry about the bad quality pics; haven't had a chance to take good ones yet). You can't see it well in this pic, but his belly has been stamped with a heart shape that I've painted glossy red! :-) His gloves will be red too, and I think I'll add some beads on the snows to look like he's dropped them.
Hugs all! Tomorrow I'll be adding pics of another snowman, and also some pics of my latest project, Mad Mouton, who is an irritated sheep. He's really cute when he's mad!
Ruth
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