Honeysuckle Studio

Springtime art doll

2012-02-12T19:56:00.000-08:00

Hands Touching Hands

2012-02-03T07:49:00.001-08:00

"Don't ask yourself what the

world needs. Ask yourself what

makes you come alive. Because

what the world needs is people

who have come alive."

-Howard Thurman-

From a Rare Height

2012-02-03T07:23:00.000-08:00

Help! We're all bottled up.

2011-10-26T20:51:00.001-07:00

Bollywood Dreamer

2011-10-26T20:32:00.000-07:00

This is a full-body sculpt in ProSculpt polymer clay, no molds used, of a young lady who is dancing and dreaming of being discovered by a Bollywood producer.

She stands 12 1/2" from her wooden base to top of her head and 6 1/4" from elbow to elbow. She is approximately 4" from front to back.

Her body is painted in acrylics, with a finishing layer of gold and green interference shimmer. Her skirt is lightweight gold lame, trimmed around the bottom with a filigreed gold ribbon. Her halter top is finished with a layering of gold and bronze micro beads. Her snake bracelets are covered in micro beads with Swarovski crystals as accents, and she has a Swarovski crystal piercing in her naval. Her hair is multi-colored yarn fibers with gold accents.

Annabelle

2011-06-05T12:09:00.000-07:00

Annabelle has articulated arms, and her basket of flowers can be removed or placed in a different position. She stands 11" high and her torso is an antique wooden sewing spool decorated with ribbons and tiny pearls.

Her dress is a repurposed doll's dress from about 1940. Around the bottom of her skirt is a hand-tatted piece of lace. As I was sewing her dress, I thought alot about the person who did that tatting and how much time it must have taken.

Tin Can Man Cal

2011-06-05T09:49:00.000-07:00

Cal the Tin Man is 12 3/4" tall to the top of his hat, which is, I think, an old cookie cutter. His body is a vintage Calumet Baking Powder can. His face is hand sculpted paper clay over a styrofoam base, painted with acrylics and pastels and finished with a matte glaze. The feet and legs were found at antique flea markets, and I have no idea what they are, but I think the metal is brass.

The Cup Ran Away With the Spoons

2011-06-05T09:04:00.000-07:00

The Cup Ran Away with the Spoons: wild-haired and dirty-faced from her successful spoon rescue, this lady is on the run to save the spoons. She is a one-of-a-kind doll assemblage. The hand sculpted face and arms are of polymer clay. Her title is a play on the nursery rhyme, "Hey diddle-diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon, the little dog laughed to see such a sight, and the dish ran away with the spoon."

The remainder of the doll is made from found object vintage hardware, an old tin measuring cup, miniature gears and a jewelry piece with antique-finished charms. An old door knob backplate forms the base. The beanie cap, face and neck structure, as well as the arms, are secured with wing nuts and bolts.

Pick your flower: a questionnaire

2011-06-04T14:21:00.000-07:00

I am a
Snapdragon

What Flower
Are You?

The Princess and the Golden Goose

2010-10-24T15:18:00.000-07:00

Alice in Wonderland

2010-10-24T14:55:00.001-07:00

2010-08-15T08:12:00.000-07:00

This is a fun site. I voted for four different fabric designs, but it was difficult to choose, they're all so creative.

Spoonflower

Spoonflower.com is a print on demand fabric site. You can upload your own designs and have them printed onto a variety of fabrics. My sister and I have been playing with designs for the last few mo...

2010-08-05T11:37:00.000-07:00

This is my work in progress for Art Dolls Only quarterly challenge. The challenge is any character (s) from Grimms' Fairy Tales. This is going to be "The Princess Meets the Golden Goose."

Penelope

2010-07-27T11:03:00.000-07:00

Penelope is another of the wooden spool series. Her torso is a vintage wooden sewing spool. She is sculpted from polymer clay and stands 11 1/2 inches tall.

2010-06-08T15:54:00.000-07:00

I just love these images from Karen at Graphics Fairy. Here's what she said about this one:
Swoon! I am so in love with this! This is the title page of an early (circa 1851) rare book, called "The Poetry of Flowers". I just can't get over how gorgeous this is! I was so happy to acquire it so that we can all use it! I love the classic lines of the urn with the profusion of flowers trailing around it, and then of the course the wonderful typography, is the icing on the cake. This image is in it's original form with charming torn edges and all. I hope you all like it as much as I do!

Savannah

2010-06-08T15:10:00.000-07:00

This is Savannah, another of my spool doll series. Her torso is an antique wooden spool; the rest of the body is hand sculpted polymer clay. Her yellow and cream sunsuit and bonnet were made from a vintage doll dress that I cut up and remade. I guess you could say that she is a genuine recycled, repurposed doll. She is six inches tall on a 4" square base.

We Heart Summertime

2010-05-26T17:09:00.000-07:00

Irish Annie

2010-04-21T18:58:00.000-07:00

This is Irish Annie, the third doll in the Industrial Emergence Series. The three dolls are supposed to represent different aspects of the fashion of the industrial revolution period of the 1850s in America. Annie came here to escape the Potato Famine in Ireland that began in 1847. She got a job working as a maid in a posh N.Y. hotel and is a little bewildered by the big city.

2010-04-06T15:39:00.000-07:00

I received a wonderful gift today from doll artist friend, Jessica Acosta Hamilton. She emailed me and asked if I would send her one of the original photos of Arabella. About an hour later, back comes this gorgeous new banner for my blog and Etsy shop. She is an incredibly gifted and creative doll artist, not to mention just plain nice. Please check out her site (dollproject.com) and Etsy shop (dollproject.etsy.com). Thank you, Jessica.

2010-04-06T14:21:00.000-07:00

This is Arabella, the second doll in the Industrial Emergence (1850's) series I'm working on. She's making her statement as a little bit of refined Godey Lady and a little bit of rebel. She has the required bustle of her day and the the ornate hair style, but she refused to wear the heavy, cumbersome crinolins that the refined ladies wear and instead has one of the more modern, wired underskirts and some spunky Steampunk jewelry. She also refused to carry a fan.

Ariana

2010-03-17T19:17:00.000-07:00

This is the first doll in a series I plan to call Spool Dolls because I'm using an antique wooden spool for the torso. This first series will have an industrial theme and will incorporate metal findings and fashion from the the mid-19th century, when not only industry but also ladies' fashion was in a state of evolution. This is the era from which the Steampunk look arose.

2010-02-11T20:46:00.000-08:00

Here's a lovely image for Valentine's Day. I got it from The Graphics Fairy at http://www.graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/. You can download all kinds of wonderful graphics from her site for free. I think I'll be visiting her regularly.

2010-02-08T10:44:00.000-08:00

I finally finished painting the pictures/alphabet letters I've been working on for the last two months. They are for my daughter and son-in-law's soon-to-be-adopted baby. She asked me if I would paint a large picture for one wall of the nursery. Through a friend I got the idea to do these alphabet letters. She had a set of them that she got for her grandchildren. They were published by Houghton Mifflin, and I have to confess - I copied them! I bought a couple tablets of primed 9x12 canvas, some tube acrylics and got to work. I just thought it would be so eye-catching to plaster them all over the wall in staggered sets on little shelves (think Martha Stewart here).

Temple, Rich and Pancho

2010-02-05T06:36:00.001-08:00

Temple, Rich and Pancho
Originally uploaded by honeysuckledolls

This was taken at Christmas, 2009, with their new puppy they got from a rescue site. He came from Mexico and was treated in this country for an unattended broken leg and then placed for adoption. He's a sweetie. They lost their Australian Shepherd/American husky dog, Siska, a year ago July (2007) to cancer, and it took Temple awhile to be ready to get another pooch.

Uploaded by honeysuckledolls on 4 Feb 10, 11.45AM PST.

Compose your blog entry
Title:
Your Post:

Or, return to this item's page.

Mini quilt

2009-06-04T08:26:00.001-07:00

Mini quilt
Originally uploaded by honeysuckledolls

Some do-dads I hung in the corner. The little quilt piece with colored pencil face drawing is something I learned in an online class taught by Angela Jarecki.

Mini quilt

2009-06-04T08:22:00.001-07:00

Mini quilt
Originally uploaded by honeysuckledolls

Here's a closeup of the beading I did on a mini "window" quilt that I made in an online class taught by Angela Jarecki.

Mini quilt

2009-06-04T08:11:00.001-07:00

DSC_0041.jpg
Originally uploaded by honeysuckledolls

Here is the finished project. It is a mini "window" quilt with a hand-drawn face done in colored pencil. The pattern is from an online class taught by Angela Jarecki.

Come to my garden

2009-05-29T17:53:00.000-07:00

This is as far as I've gotten. Hey, it's a start!

Today I worked on a Window Face mini quilt. It's an online class hosted by Angela Jarecki. You start out by drawing a face in colored pencil on cloth, then you add crazy quilt pieces around the window, free stitching them in place. Next come embellishments, which I haven't gotten to yet.

The little girl doll I sculpted last week to place in my shop has a tiny red dot on her arm that I can't remove. I tried to scrape it off with a blade, but it seems to be embedded, and because I already have her baked and glazed I can't re-bake her. One more road block, but I'm getting used to that.