Bravura Personified has hands!!

Here's Bravura, my doll in Art Doll Cool-Aberration 2009, as she looks after visiting five of the project artists.



Doesn't she look great?! She just left Jeanne in Or who gave her polymer clay hands and a cigarette in a holder. Perfect!







This is the page Jeanne added to Bravura's journal.


Just for comparison, here's what Bravura looked like when I first sent her on her travels.


She's in CA with Robyn now, and then she visits Yvonne in TX. Then home to me! If you wanna see her visit-by-visit progress thru the project, check out the Art Doll Cool-Aberration blog.

Miss Elspeth Darkly - Art Doll Cool-Aberration

Here's Miss Elspeth Darkly, all ready to journey on to visit Barb in NY.



Elspeth originated with Karma in SK, Canada. She's a private eye type trying to unravel the mystery of Fifi, the kidnapped poodle. She's at the masquerade ball now, where "all will be revealed".

I painted Elspeth's upper torso to match her facial skintone, and made her a polymer clay roller skates charm that dangles below her skirt, and a paper mache umbrella rifle.



Here're my journal pages continuing her story.




Elspeth's journal is kindof different and fun in that it's become like a mystery story that we each add a chapter to. Check out her whole story on the Art Doll Cool-Aberration blog.

Happy New Year!

When we were little, my Mom bought a 'birthday angel' for each of us four kids. The angels were about 5 inches tall and each held something related to the birthday month. I still have my angel who's holding a heart, since my birthday's in February. Now I've decided to make myself a set of 'special occasion' dolls, a doll each for New Years, Valentine's Day, my birthday, St Patrick's Day, Easter, May Day, July 4th, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Instead of angels, I'm making little paper mache queens about 5 1/2 inches tall. This is my first - The New Year's Queen.

Dave's Doodles - Stangely Precise

Thought y'all might wanna see some more of brother Dave's cartoon art. Here's this year's Christmas card depicting him and me.


Next up is a drawing he did especially for me last year. It depicts him, my other brother, and me at the lake as kids. Mom had that "no swimming for 1/2 hour after eating" rule, so here we're waiting to go back in the water. (The shark in the background is eating our old neighbor, Robbie Downey.)


Dave's always liked to draw baseball players. I think he likes drawing the gloves and hats...


Flying things and dinosaurs and robots are other recurring themes in Dave's drawings.


I call myself the female version of Dave. I can't draw, but we definitely share the same warped sense of humor.

Doodle Book

My brother draws cool cartoons. For Christmas I made him a book to doodle in. I put a copy of one of his drawings on the cover and filled it with blank pages. The cover is made from regular corragated box cardboard covered in fabric, paint, paper and shellac.

Merry Christmas, everybody!

Just a little icicle angel I made for a friend.

Elspeth is here

In the Art Doll Cool-Aberration project, I have Karma's doll, Miss Elspeth Darkly, now. Elspeth is a female private investigator. Here's what she looked like when Karma first sent her out, just a 7" felted torso and head with a clay face.



And here's how she looks now after visiting 4 other artists in the collaboration.




She's a really cool doll. I've already made one addition and am pondering my next. Be sure to check out our Art Doll Cool-Aberration blog to see details on all the additions made to the project dolls and their journals.