Kali -WIP

My hands are like pin cushions tonight.  You might say that most of my dolls are in fact Voodoo dolls, consisting of human hair and blood!  Here's Kali so far.  Need a little sleep so I can look at her with fresh eyes. 

Mermaid Art Doll

Finally had some time this weekend and cooperation with Mother Nature to get a outdoor photo shoot done for this art doll.  Now she can be shipped out.

Ginger

Actually, this doll came out pretty much how I had envisioned.  I wanted to create a "Ginger" doll.  A little  freckled face red headed girl.  But as with all of my pieces there is always a dash of dark thrown in regardless of how much I try to avoid it.  Oh well, she was a lot of fun to work on.

Ginger is a 14 inch tall OOAK (one of a kind) Art Doll.  No molds were used to create her.  She is sculpted from polymer clay over a wire armature.  She has lovely light auburn human hair.  Light blue eyes.  Her dress and hat are made of velvet.  Her shoes are hand made of leather and ribbon.  Her pantaloons are made of satin and ribbon.

Shoes are hand stitched leather

Velvet Hand Made Hat

Hand and machine stitched clothing

Satin Pantaloons

2 Front Teeth

I started this sculpt over the weekend.  I really thought when I picked up the clay that I was going in the pretty direction.  Well, not so much.  It's always a journey from start to finish when creating art dolls.  Even I don't know what the hell I am making half of the time until it just becomes.

I am looking around my art room and I have, count them, 5 unfinished dolls hanging around.  I have been inspired lately.  My goal for the week is to complete all of them.

Oral Regurgitation

Wounded Warrior Project

  Finally sitting down to blog after a nice long weekend off.  Hope everyone had a happy holiday weekend. 
Besides making art I also have a office job.  I work for the oldest American made bicycle company in America.  Worksman Cycles was established in 1898 in what is now the footprint of the World Trade Center.  It relocated to a factory in Queens, NY many years later.  They were the makers of the original Good Humor Ice cream Tricycle.

Worksman Cycles recently partnered with The Wounded Warrior Project and created two new outstanding bikes for the charity.  On Thursday the head of the WWP, two Wounded Warriors and Matthew Modene (along with every New York newspaper rep) came  for  lunch and a tour of the factory.  Here are just some of the 411 photos I shot that day.

Me and Matthew Modene

I also took the tour with everyone and got some great shots of the factory.  The behind the scenes of Worksman Cycles.

My Art Studio Feature on the ADA Blog.  Ada is a great new Art Doll Artist blog. Check it out.

http://artdollartists.com/blog/studio-feature-the-studio-of-kimmie-lovin/