A fascinating gallery has come to my attention, carrying several favorite centuries and artists. To be seen in Culver City, California, the Century Guild:
They're showing the work of "Great Gatsby" designer Catherine Martin, May 8 to June 1. Mighty fine! Image and article in the LA Times. Click on through.
Work in progress...
She must be constructed in pieces, to fit in the oven for curing. The segments will be well disguised, and in a sense it makes design more interesting: one comes up with things by necessity that end up being virtues, often!
Abyssal Angel, WIP in Kato Polyclay over aluminum and Aves "Fixit Sculpt" armature. About 30" tall, with all appendages.
Kind Visitors,
May has become a strange month to me. I'm returning to the surface after a death in my family. As I resume work on these abyssal beings, I think of two who chose to die in water, and in May: my father many and many years ago, and now his twin sister, my aunt. She was friend, ally, artist, listener, vivid mind and believer in things not yet created. She leaves a hollow in the world, she leaves us standing on the shore. May has become a strange month.
More in a while, on the call of deep waters.
Armature in aluminum armature wire, with Kato Polyclay head and Aves Fixit Sculpt reinforcing armature points.
She'll appear at the Spectrum Fantastic Art Live event in Kansas City, May 17 - 19. (Going to be a busy couple of weeks here!!)
WIP in Kato Polyclay, about 16" tall including the base. She's still far from finished, but now has a nice critter on her back:
About 9" high, in Kato Polyclay, available through About Face Dolls
If you like the Creepy, do go see the 1500+ entries on Deviant Art -- the contest is linked to the film "MAMA," opening on Jan. 18, by filmakers Andy & Barbara Muschietti and Guillermo del Toro, whose work I already love. To see the Competition:
My "Grandmama," entry and ode to my maternal Grandma.... a most unusual personage!
With hope for a more peaceable kingdom all around, kindness and empathy, compassion and the seeing heart.
Silvershod, or Silver Hoof, and his friend the Cat. From the Russian tale of similar name.
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Inspired by photos coming out of Kosovo circa 1999. My first 'art doll,' who went to live in Israel.
An Angel in air-dry clay, from a few years back.
Kind Friends, I'm just now moving this site from SquareSpace 5 to the new SquareSpace 6 platform, which has all sorts of fine advantages. Expect to see some missing links and other glitches till I've got it all set right! The archives and so on will be missing for a little while, then gain their own page. For the moment, the only "links" page that's set up is the "Artists: Doll" section, and that just barely. Much more to come. Thanks for coming along!
And yikes -- while I love most of Squarespace 6, I've not mastered the post layout blocks... they have a mind of their own and do not approve of me as yet.
And, testing slider and grid galleries within posts:
Octopoid Fragment underway
Underway in Kato Polyclay
And then there’s social media, of course:
