Painted fabric and found objects combine to make wacky, imaginative, slightly primitive sculptures from husband-and-wife team Jo James and Dylan Curry at The Cart Before the Horse.
I love the raven with forks for legs. How awesome is that?
Today’s artist appears to be Spanish in origin, but her simple, graceful, minimalistic figures make me think of some northern European tradition. They remind me of the simplicity of corn husk dolls, though these are made of fabric and have a tendency toward international subject matter.
Visit her on Flickr or her web site.
Modern, [...]
A lot has already been written about this artist, on Daily Art Muse and Art Found Out, so I’m not really going to review her work. I wanted to comment on a phrase someone used to describe her innocent little girls and realistic animals: narrative paper sculptures. A frequent topic of discussion in [...]
Continue reading about Kyoko Okubo: Narrative Paper Sculpture
Jenny Lee is an Australian bear artist, but what attracted me to her site was the adorable-enough-to-eat chick pictured on Softies Central. Here’s an artist who has made facial geometry into an extreme sport: if she placed the eyes of her stuffed critters any farther apart, or their noses any higher, they’d look [...]
Andrea Graham does things with needle felting I had no idea you could do. She appears to have started out as a dollmaker and moved on to more “fine art” type work. Her doll figures represent a quirky sense of humor, more fun than beautiful. My favorite piece, which I won’t post here because [...]
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in the USA, so I thought I’d give you a selection of holiday-themed morsels from Etsy.
An excellent use of the soft texture and colors available to needle felters by WonderwulAnnette in her piece, Fall Forest Maiden.
Good seasonal cheer by SunshineCupcake in this piece, Kevin Jr. Pumpkin.
Fall Pumpkin Doll by Beansandrice is [...]
I usually don’t include bears or plushies on this blog, because SoftiesCentral does a much better job of that than I ever could, but today I have found a bear maker who absolutely deserves your attention.
I think the appeal of bears is often their simplicity. They have simple, impressionistic features, allowing an artist [...]
Continue reading about Shelli Heinemann’s Potbelly Pixies–thinking outside the bear
If Maurice Sendak sculpted scrawny kids in Halloween suits, it might look something like a Mealy Monster. Awkward is probably too gentle a term to use for these big-eyed, buck-toothed, skinny-legged kids, but then, maybe Halloween should be the one day that pretty children are banished in favor of their gangly siblings and beady-eyed [...]
Continue reading about Nicole Johnson — Mealy Monster Madness
Today I have for you a couple of great Halloween-themed creepy artists.
LoopyBoopy works in the same creepy/primitive category as Michelle Steele and Scott Radke. Her polymer clay “dead kids” use marbles for eyes and include tragic little stories about their lives. You can find LoopyBoopy on Etsy or Flickr and there’s an interesting [...]
Hi and welcome to our newest weekly feature on Needle and Clay! A lot of you seem to be arriving here from search engines looking for dollmaking tutorials, so, since it just happens that I am a compulsive link hoarder, I have decided to start sharing a new dollmaking tutorial link with you every Tuesday. [...]
Continue reading about Tutorial Tuesday — Cedarseed’s drawing tutes
