My First Art Doll

Well here she is—my first art doll. I’m not sure what I’m going to call her, but I’ve deemed her finished. For my first art doll I wanted to do something fairly simple, so I did her out of paper. The face is a rubber stamp which I belongs to a friend (thanks Sue!), so I’m not sure who makes it—but I think I need one! The rest of the doll is a pattern that I drew. The upper and lower arms are movable, as well as the upper and lower legs and feet. I wish you could see how the wings glitter. They are coloured with watercolour pencils, permapaque markers and a glitter marker… and they just glisten!!

Everything else just kind of evolved from stuff I had around the studio. The skirt is made from some ribbon that was RAKed to me from my dear friend Lynette (thanks luv!!), which I embellished with some rick-rack and beads. The bra is made from scraps of leather and some shaped metal clips I’ve had forever. The hair is some ribbon yarn that I hand dyed ages ago, but the colour ended up being perfect for this doll, so I braided it and attached it under the velvet ribbon of the crown. The crown is from part of a huge stamped image of a toile tree, coloured with watercolour pencils and a bit of glitter paint. The crown was topped with some bazzill which was rubbed with Craf-T metallic rubons.

If anyone can think of a good name for her, I’d love to hear it. She was originally going to be holding a deco card that had the word muse stamped on it, but then binned the idea because it covered up too much of her. So if you can think of a name along those lines, please leave a comment! I’d really like to name her.