Could this be more perfect?

Come to the gallery shop tomorrow and watch the celebrations for the Chinese New Year and stay warm. I’ll put the green tea on. Open 12-4 10563 97St. #chinatown #mariapacewynters #mixedmedia #artist #yeg #edmonton #greentea #newyear #yearofthesheep

Get ready for Halloween!

Felted Hats and Dragon Scarves from the MossFete Etsy shop

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Follow the Hand and Lock link above--they teach all kinds of needlework in Williamsburg, VA. How cool! Looks like most are a couple days. Never heard of this before but could be best vacation ever.

“Tambour beading also known as Lunéville or Crochet de Lunéville is a French Haute Couture technique where beads or sequins can be attached to a fabric. The embroidery is done with a hook working through a fabric stretched tight as a drum.” - Hand & Lock 

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I ♥️ Patrick Kelly. So glad to see his work remembered and appreciated.

Today we celebrate the birthday and legacy of African American designer Patrick Kelly. Inspired by the mismatched buttons his grandmother used to mend his shirts back in Mississippi, Kelly adopted colorful, oversized buttons as his signature. His brilliant and versatile fashion vision transformed the everyday into joyfully exuberant designs. Take a look at some examples from our collection, the largest public repository of his work.

“Woman’s Ensemble: Dress, Hat, and Shoes,” Fall/Winter 1987, by Patrick Kelly

“Woman’s Dress,” Fall/Winter 1986, by Patrick Kelly

“Woman’s Dress,” Fall/Winter 1986, by Patrick Kelly

“Woman’s Dress,” Fall/Winter 1987, by Patrick Kelly

“Woman’s Dress,” Fall/Winter 1986, by Patrick Kelly

“Woman’s Dress,” Fall/Winter 1986, by Patrick Kelly

“Woman’s Ensemble: Coat and Dress,” Fall/Winter 1986, by Patrick Kelly

Just antiqued Felicity. It was hard to rub brown paint all over her. I'm happy with the result.

Could this be more perfect????

p00 by Mis◈Evergreen on Flickr.

Precious.

plant dyeing Bijou dress at BlytheCon San Francisco 2016

This is genius!

Some of you have requested that I sell copies of the skull that I use as a base for sculpting faces. I finally got around to it.

This skull is an original sculpt of mine, intended for use as a sculpting tool and not as any sort of anatomical reference. They are solid resin, about 1/3 scale, and are not perfect casts (seam lines and some air bubbles) but for what they are intended to be, they are fine.

They are $30 + shipping and there are only four because I ran out of resin, but I will make more if needed. One is already earmarked for @serilyn, the rest are first come, first served. They are priced so I can try to recoup the cost of labour alone (it was easily 10 hours for the moldmaking and casting– I am not including the time spent sculpting the prototype, or even the cost of materials.)  PM me here or use my website: FENEDHISS.

Dolls, plus a beautifully composed photo. Score and score.

WIP Aebele & Anne Raw sanded porcelain

Fantastic mod!!

I have had this version prepped for months and forgot to post it.  As you may have guessed, this is part one of the booklet I made for the Mod Panel I did [poorly] at Resin Rose last Spring. 

Too gorgeous.

Manav Gangwani at India Couture Week 2016

Just finished a new cloth doll. She is named "Felicity." She was inspired by 19th century Izannah Walker dolls but she only slightly resembles them. I incorporated some BJD style mobility. Now to make some clothes.

Head for my new cloth doll just painted.

Mold Making Experiment: I was making a couple molds last night and didn’t have enough silicone. I recently made a couple experimental molds that I wouldn’t use again. I quickly cut them up into bits and squished the bits into the silicone. With those bits taking up some space in the corners of the molds, I had just enough silicone to get by. The molds turned out pretty nice. I’m happy and I’ll be sure to save and recycle my unsuccessful silicone molds going forward.

I’ll repost if I find any drawbacks to this after I’ve made some casts in these molds.

This doll will have a sculpted head and cloth body. I've been inspired by 19th century "Izannah Walker" dolls but I'm incorporating modern elements that I love in my BJDs. Instead of a wig, I'll glue her hair to the head cap (some fashion BJDs have this feature). That's why the top of her head looks so odd.

Making a new head with LaDoll.

I had to reblog– I totally agree.

I’m working on a BJD (I posted her WIP pic 5 posts down). I don’t plan to have her produced due to the recasters. I’ll make OOAKs and see how that goes.

I’ve put so much work into her and still have so much to do. There is nothing I’d love better than seeing other people customize a doll I made, but there’s nothing I’d hate more than having my work stolen.

Fear of recasting

In light of more nasty “my life is hard so I deserve to steal the intellectual property of others” recast BS, I thought I’d share something relating to recasts I typed up but never posted a week or so ago:

So, I’m really excited to have Luna coming along so nicely and see all the lovely support you guys have been giving me! It makes me so excited to think that there will be dolls I sculpted out in the world being customized and loved and fitting in to dolly families! I can hardly wait to see what you all do with them! I thought I might take a moment to articulate a bit of a fear I have about sending Luna off into the world. Even though it’s unlikely to happen to me, I can’t shake that little bit of fear of having her be recast. I know that I’m not the only sculptor afraid of this, and that it’s VERY unlikely to happen to me, but… Low prices hasn’t stopped Aileen’s dragons or Hujoo’s Freya being recast. Being a small artist didn’t stop Lilycat or Cuarto, or Kinoko Juice from being recast. All it takes is enough people to want my doll cheaper, or in a different colour. Maybe they will pick something they don’t like about me or my business practices and tell themselves that it’s therefore okay to steal the products of my hard work. I won’t let it stop me, but it’s a dark kernel of fear in the back of my mind when I see recast apologetics. Implausible though it is, I can’t help but feel it could be me someday they’re stealing from. My heart goes out to every sculptor who has to look at beautiful, customized dolls and wonder if they have stolen faces among them, belonging to people who argue that you don’t deserve payment or the rights to your own work. I won’t let it stop me, but there are others who do, and I can’t blame them.