3d Folks

  • Hello Dolly!

    Look…she's barely off the work table and already out exploring the world.  🙂 I just love how she turned out ~ all barefoot and spring colors. I especially love her skin tone & hair…used my trusty espresso to dye the clay!  Can't go wrong with that.  Plus, now she smells like coffee.  ♥

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  • Re-Worked

    This was my doll as shown a couple days ago.  Since that point, I had painted her & made 3 different skirts but she just wasn't coming together in a way that spoke to me.  Something was off.  So out came the clay and now she's feeling much more like my style of girl! I've

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  • K is for Kettle

    Toot, Toot!  The kettle is singing that the water is ready.  :o) I wasn't sure what to paint when I sat down this evening, but knew I wanted to do something with this little 6×6" canvas.   I rolled on some color with my brayer, dried that layer with my heat gun, then put on a

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  • A bit of this, a bit of that…

    This is the dolly I've been working on as part of the Cloth & Clay Dolls group.  :)  She may not look like much yet, but I'm kinda proud of her because I'm just not good with sewing!  I usually have to call in back up (Mom) to help me with the sewing machine before

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  • Cloth & Clay Dolls

    This is so exciting!  I've worked quite a lot with Paper Clay and have always been drawn toward a folk-art type of doll.  I think I fell in love with Nicol Sayre's dolls originally. Then recently I found this "virtual classroom" online that shows how to make exactly that combination of things ~ a folk-art

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  • Box People take over!

    For almost 8 months I made what felt like a zillion of these little folks.  Most of them sold at a juried art show at the Anchorage Museum.  It was so fun to see the different reactions from people!  Some just really didn't know what to make of them.  I still have the notebook page

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  • In which the floodgates opened…

    Still with me?  If you're just jumping in, we're looking back at some work I made about 7 years ago.  After the first couple, I just had too many ideas to stop!  Over the summer my world became well populated with all kinds of Box People.  {Click the images below to see them a bit

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  • Coffee Man

    Soon after the success of my garden girl, my thoughts turned to coffee.  As my thoughts often do.  :)  And so was born Mighty, Mighty Coffee Man!He can curl two cups on those copper wire arms, and all with a happy smile and a head full o' beans.A metal shaving {salvaged from the scrap box

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  • Mother Nature

    Look out, we're walking down memory lane now!  After looking through my archives to grab those Valentines photos yesterday, I started finding all kinds of fun older work.  Ready?  {This may take a few days to unfold!}I started by playing with Paperclay to make this little round head.  At first I thought of sewing a

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  • Matilda in 3D

    I liked my little ice-cream-hair girl so much that I’m working on clay version of her. I usually make the whole thing – eyes included – out of clay and just paint the details.  This time I’m trying some doll eyes in her.  Who knew it would be so hard to get them to face

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