Tuesday, May 29, 2012

AM I A MAN OR AM I A MUPPET



Back in December I "taught" a puppet making workshop at work. A fun creative renewal opportunity. I use the word "teach" loosely. With this experience I learned that I have a hard time explaining something when asked. So much of what I do is trial and error and winging it or just plain intuition. I found myself doing lots of rough doodles to get my point across. But it was a success and some AWESOME work came out of it!!!!! I am lucky to be surrounded by a ton of unbelievably talented people on a daily basis.

We have a great large creative library at Hallmark. A great source of inspiration with a fun environment. The outside walls of the library have large display windows that are always filled with inspiration and artwork. We had the pleasure of filling these large windows with the puppets from this workshop. This meant a lot of work went into creating backgrounds for them.

Check them out.















This one is mine. The three numbered puppets and girl on the ground were originally created for the Shoebox blog.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_1HSsEx1lU&feature=player_embedded



My 80's girl. She's sporting an s side ponytail, got her awesome yellow Sony walkman headphones and is of course wearing two Swatch watches.





 

Monday, May 7, 2012

FRANK'S BRIDE



I just now got around to taking a pic of her. I finished her about a week ago.

She stands 19" tall and the base is 5" wide.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN



I'm working on a Bride of Frankenstein commission piece right now.



Doodle.



I started with the head first. It's the most detailed and will take the longest.



Crazy eyes!!



Here's the head attached to the armless body. I made the body out of fleece then wrapped strips of ripped cotton fabric around it.

I hope to have the arms, dress and base for her done in the next few days.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

VALENTINE PUP



I'm a little late posting this, but this plush puppy was created for a Hallmark Valentine's Day card. Card was available in Walmart stores.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

BARBIE'S SPRING COLLECTION



I made a bunch of Barbie clothes for my daughter for her birthday. I was too cheap to go out and buy ugly poorly made Barbie clothes. This is probably the first and last time I make that many pieces. I do not like sewing this small. It makes 18" doll clothes a dream to sew.

I keep lots of scrap fabric laying around which was perfect for making these.





I used Simplicity pattern 5785 for all the pieces except for the dress on the left in the above pic. I chose this pattern because of the many clothing options, the mixing and matching of pieces plus I loved the 1960's clothing.