PRINT SPECIAL!: I have just met with my amazing photographer/printer friend, Charlie, and he is getting started on the editions for It Isn't Manners and The Cheshire Tree. I have had a lot of requests for these to be made into prints and I love the results! Charlie is printing on this amazing metallic paper that really makes the images pop! If you have seen the Faceted Limited Edition Print, it is the same paper. So shiny! I am currently taking pre-orders and I plan to ship the beginning of December. Also, if you missed one of the other pre-order specials, I am offering my other prints at that reduced price for a limited time! These are all limited to an edition of 50 and when they are gone...you get the point. The Millinery Studio has almost run it's edition, so don't hesitate if you have been debating on picking one up!
All of these print specials can be ordered on my WEBSITE
LOVE: Thank you to everyone who has been voting for my piece during the Mystery Build People's Choice Awards. There are only 3 days remaining and I really appreciate all the support I have received!
Thank you!
Amy Kollar Anderson
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward." ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"A sense of humor cushions the potholes on the road of life." ~ Frank Tyger
"Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me." ~ Brooke Shields
"From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!" ~ Dr. Seuss
My kit arrives and I get to see what I have to work with on this project.
A nice assortment!
Tobin inspects the materials.
I began the piece by scavenging materials. You can even use the box the supplies come in.
Squirrel away anything you think you might use, cause that is all you get and you never know what complications you will encounter!
Ti thinks I am nuts, but this is my idea of FUN!
Rope offers so many possibilities!
The beginning of her hair.
Taking apart the canvas board, my concept sketch in the back.
Removing the cardboard and soaking the back to reveal the primed canvas.
On the floor, getting into it now!
My work station.
Starting the wire armature.
Holes are drilled to start the harp.
I am one of those sickos that really likes the jewelers saw!
Starting the rings for her hair by wrapping the wire around one of the dowel rods.
I had to change the scale, which meant making a second harp! Argh!
Turning blocks into rocks with a jig saw! Probably not the safest thing to do!
Rocks!
Taking the rope, cutting, covering with glue for shoe laces.
Work it, you sexy wire lady, you!
Starting to paint.
Connecting the rocks with dowel rods.
Building up the figure and the basics go together.
Covering the wire in the Sculpty clay. I did this because I did not think I would have enough of the oil base clay. This was a mistake because after firing the Sculpty hard, it made adjusting the figured later really a pain in the butt!
Just weird.
Building up the oil based clay.
She is starting to take shape.
I liked the idea of her wearing clunky, big red boots!
Painting her skin.
Painting her hair.
Nice butt!
Pulling canvas "strings" for the harp.
Painting her face.
Starting to glue on her hair.
Inserting the shoe laces.
Gluing them in place.
Taming that wild mane!
Harp is coming together. Using Friendly Plastics for the beads.
I also made the decorations on her belt from Friendly Plastics.
Some landscape elements that did not make it to the final piece.
Starting the base of her belt/skirt.
Her belt, hair and chain loops.
That has got to hurt!
More saw action!
Friendly Plastics are not being friendly! I had to abandon this element.
Tracing the background.
Transferring those to the canvas I removed in the beginning.
Background painted and ready for the panels to be cut out.
Panels applied.
Drew dots for the background.
Making paper pulp.
Applying paper pulp strips to her head.
Glued paper strips for her dress, canvas detail, hoop earrings going in.
Using foam blocks to cover the rocks.
Mmmm...mossy!
Final gluing.
Last paint details
