Can I call this a doll if it's not a person? Meh, I'll call it what I want. This is another project for the Dia de los Muertos Swap!
Check out his crazy skeleton! The body is sewn out of plain canvas using the wren pattern from "
The Artful Bird" by Abigail Patner Glassenberg. Then I used a ton of black craft acrylic paint to kinda stiffen the body and wings up. Then white paint for the details.
The crest is just a guineafowl feather dyed with alcohol inks. To attach it, I cut a little hole in the crown with an exacto, which wasn't too hard because the fabric was so stiff from all the paint. Before I stuck the feather in, I had to reinforce its shaft with a little rolled up aluminum from a popcan. After that, I just stuck the feather in the hole with a little glue.
The beak is polyclay... I figured it would give it a much more hard, skeletal attitude :)
I hope everyone is having a good holiday weekend! I'm buying blinds for my new house today... Then packing like CRAZY. I might not blog for a week or so. Moving kind of sucks, but I'm going to be SO GLAD when we're settled in.
9 comments:
Oh! I love it! Painting muslin is so fun. The texture of the painted fabric is one of my favorite things. I love making prim dolls just to feel the fabric!
The poly clay beak is just perfect! I think it needs a Day of the Dead nest too! With fun fibers and lots of sparkles!
That bird is adoreable. I have bird envy!... If there is such a thing. n__n Great work. xo
Congrats on your new digs!
This is too awesome. I love birds and skeletons (not real ones) kinda fascinate me. Like, cute, fake, art, or plush ones. We have a real (human) skeleton at my school and it creeps the heck outta me.
That is absolutely gorgeous. :)
This is really cool! I love your blog, you are so talented!
This is so so awesome!! Great work!
I LOVE this bird!!! I really dig the flowers on its wings, and your inchies are also something I really like, they make me itch to try making my own, but I don't really know what I'd do with them o.O
I just got The Artful Bird for Christmas. I put it on my wishlist as soon as I saw your bird on Pinterest. (Was sure I commented but can't have, may have swooned dead away I reckon *g*) Anyway, I hope to have a bash at a skellie bird like yours soon, he's just gorgeous. Though, my very basic sewing skills may leave him a bit zombified rather than sleek and gorgeous like your one here ;) Thanks for the inspiration.
Carmen (A silent lurker - one of my resolutions is to remedy that this year. Loud vocal stalking, less non-commenting on blogs!)
I absolutely love this art doll. and yes I said doll.... :)
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