When I first started my business, I read every book and every blog I could find on the topic. Some of the subjects I wanted to know most about had very little written about them. So I had to experiment and work things out on my own. But you don’t! Browse through these pages and learn from my mistakes.
Cloth Paper Scissors, May/June 2013 Issue
Incite, Dreams Realized: The Best of Mixed Media, by Tonia Jenny, North Light Books, 2013
Art Doll Quarterly, Spring 2015. My Sorrowful Sister doll was chosen for the "Mothers and Daughters" challenge.
Prims, Fall 2015. My Griselda Hippo Witch doll was chosen for publication.
I just finished up some collage paintings. I make these with acrylic paint on a stretched canvas with old French dictionary paper cut outs for the hippo shapes. I color the dictionary pages with colored pencil, acrylic paint, charcoal pencils, or alcohol ink.
I've just completed my first art dolls and I'm unveiling them here first! They are made from paperclay with styrofoam balls and wooden dowels as an armature. They have yarn hair and coffee filter skirts. I call them my Sorrowful Sisters.
The Servants of Ord are finished! I've been working on these for most of 2012 and am happy to be done with them. They are the servants of Master Ord, who I haven't created yet, but I believe will be small and round and powerful, and possibly amoral. Find out more...