Art Doll - Silver

I finally found time to post some new work. This art doll was made from scratch, meaning I made the basket first. I then papiermache it and embellished. She measures about 12" high.

Art Dollz - Patti

"Salvation"

This assemblage piece took a while to figure out and it was my first to complete!! Yeah!
I really liked the small tin assemblages other artist were doing and decided to give it a try and since I was working with new art dolls, why not combine the two.

Bobbin Lace Art

This lady is Penny Myers and she creates these wonderful pieces of art work which by the photos you can see how involved the process is. I'm used to running over to the fabric store to purchase my lace by the yard but this type of lace work is priceless!! At one time, she raised her own silk worms for threads but has since given up on that.
Bobbin lacing has been around since the 1500's and continues to be passed on by this very talented and dedicated artist!


This fan was created using 137 bobbins laid out at one time, however, Penny mentioned she is working on anywhere from 4-6 bobbins at a time. She then rotates to the next batch. It took about a year to complete this fan.


These are an old set of Bobbins made out of bone with spangles on the end which helps stabilize the bobbins.






It can take up to 1 hour to produce 1/2" of lace.

Starry Night Print

This is a linoleum print created earlier in the Summer and I just now got around to matting it. I need a lot of work in my matt cutting skills!

RUSTY ORNIE

I was too impatient for mother nature to do her thing with rusting my altered porcelain doll, so I hurried up the process myself. According to directions, you only needed to do a few application, but I landed up doing ten to twelve. You're also to wait 24 hrs between application and I waited a few hours. I still liked the results I came up with. I'm debating on whether to add a sealer or not?

Johnny Appleseed Festival 2007

Johnny Appleseed Festival this past weekend and it was a lot of work and fun. I had never done this festival before and it went well. You couldn't ask for better weather. The place was packed with people. They average between 200,000-400,000 people in that weekend alone. Our day officially didn't start until 10:00 am, however, people were at the park as early as 7:30am.
My neighbor sold ceramics and he had a line of people waiting for him to open up.
I had a lot of postive reactions to my dolls and buyers. Feedback was great and very welcomed.
This is a photo of me and my sister Barb. She is such a great sister!!! She flew in from San Francisco to help me run my booth. Festivals are new to her and she seemed to really enjoy herself. She is a ceramicist and brought some bowls to display with my dolls and they were fantastic. We've been batting around some ideas to do some collabrative pieces.