Exciting News!

I have some exciting news to share: my two little sculptures have been accepted into the Newport Beach Art Exhibition! They will be on display there from 1pm-6pm on Saturday, June 13th, so if any of my readers are in the area and would like to see them in person, please stop by!

For everyone else, here's one more look at the sculptures:

I'm working on another boy doll and another girl doll to test the crochet patterns, which I may then post to Etsy and Raverly.

Also, check out my fancy new business cards, which I had printed last weekend so they are ready to go sit next to my sculptures at the exhibition!

The judges will choose their favorites in the morning, then there will be a fun afternoon of snacking and talking to other artists and art admirers while watching the awards. I can't wait!

Wish me luck, I'll see you next week!

My Second Sculpture is Done!

 Finally! And with just over a week to spare. My boy has clothes now, and I finished off his house with a door and some windows made out of foam, and some free-form crochet flowers in the window boxes. The boy took one look at it and decided to take  nap on the roof!

This is meant to be another dream sequence, like the first sculpture, so that's why the boy and the house don't look to scale with each other. In a dream you can walk out of your house and suddenly be tall enough to reach the roof!

Here he is from a few different angles.

In the next day or so I will be filling out my application for the art exhibition and deciding how to price my two sculptures. Wish me luck! I'll let you know how it goes. Now that these are done it's time to start dreaming of a new fun project! See you next week!

Sculpture 2: Part 3- He has legs!

Sorry this post is a little late today. I was almost done with my doll's legs yesterday when I realized the left one had two more stitches than it was supposed to and I had to undo half of it to find the mistake! Anyway, here he is now, with legs!

This project is going a little slower than I would like. It's more difficult to get a lot of crafting done now that I have an internship, but I am really happy to be working again so it's all okay.

Here is a close-up. His thighs might be a little too thin but other than that I think his legs turned out well!

And here is a sneak preview of the thread I bought to make his pants. Keep following your dreams and hopefully next week my doll will have arms!

Sculpture 2: Part 2

My little guy is slowly coming along! I still have a long way to go before he's finished, but at least now his torso is complete and he has one cute little knobby knee! 

His house was what I really spent my time on this week. First, I started painting it "Empire Gold." After the first coat I decided the walls needed more texture, since I was trying to give them a stucco-like appearance. I crinkled up a piece of tissue paper and wrapped it around the house like so:

When I painted over the tissue paper, the texture looked much better.

The roof was the part that took the most time. I wanted to make a clay tile roof and decided to use bubble tea straws for the tiles. I had a packet of straws, so I took some and cut them in half lengthwise, then I cut along the length to make short tiles. I glued them to the roof so that they overlap like real roof tiles.

After the glue had dried, I mixed a few drops of black paint in with red to make the color resemble terra-cotta. (It looks much brighter in this picture than in person.)

 Don't worry, I haven't forgotten windows and doors on the house, this is just as far as I've gotten this week!

Keep following your dreams and I'll see you next week!

Sculpture 2: Part 1

My next sculpture for the Newport Beach Art Exhibition has begun! For this one I have decided to make a boy doll, and he is going to be sitting on top of a house. Everything is still pretty much in "sneak-preview" mode right now.

Here is my doll so far. I still have a lot of crocheting to do, his arms and legs don't even have any skin yet!

This is what he looked like last week, just a head and skeleton.

I made the house out of a couple styrofoam pieces...

...then added a layer of paper maché.

This is what happened when I ran out of paper and switched to the newspaper adds. Don't worry, everything will look better with paint!

I'm excited to see how this new sculpture turns out. If you are too, keep checking back next Wednesday. And don't forget to keep following your own creative dreams!