So much catching up to do

I've been busy going so many places and doing so many things. Experiencing a time when my creative energies are shifting. I was really focused on health and travel,and renewing my creative well. I'll up date as time allows so if you haven't been here for a while, check back to the posts after November as i will be filling in from time to time.

I am also posting things i am working on here:

I am keeping this blog and will still be posting mostly paper dolls here.

New paper doll download

These paper dolls started as face sketches. I imagine the
dresses as breezy cotton prints. I love sewing these kind
of dresses.

With this download you get 2 PDF files with full color
patterns to make the five paper dolls shown. You
provide your choice of scrapbook paper or other
materials for the dresses.

For more info: Go Here

New paper-doll sets

I am working on some new paper-doll downloads.
The new ones will feature a paper-doll with a wardrobe
to cut out.



My original wren-rose paper dolls were made like this. If
anyone remembers them comment below for a free download.
This offer is good until November 10, 2009

Alice Angel

A new paper doll in my etsy shop:



Inspired from a customer.
Look for e-pattern to follow.

The busiest summer ever!

I went to a trade show in May. It was very discouraging, and it had the effect of energizing my artwork in a new direction. Lots of visits from family and friends and gardening. I missed spring so not too many pictures.

I am behind in so many projects. I had trouble with arthritis in my hands and the weather here has been insane! I am doing many things behind the scenes to heal and that believe it or not have been very inspiring.

Our well motor burned out and i am barely getting caught up with watering. Good news is we had lots of grapes which I am juicing and they are delicious. Peaches are ripe now, and pears are coming in fast. The basil from last year took over the garden, so we're eating lots of pesto.

I am enjoying creating nightshade free dishes, pesto, spanish rice without tomatoes and spaghetti with out tomatoes. I created a wonderful yam salad with buttermilk dressing that is delicious. I hope to create a blog with recipes for special diets.

I am not even mentioning the birds and bunnies and hawks and bats and horses and other wonderful things that wonder in and out of our yard.

So much is happening and so fast that I am barely able to keep up.

I hope to be posting more artwork soon!
Love, E

More Paper-doll patterns

I have posted more paper-doll patterns. They are in PDF files and are easy to download.

You may have seen the angel one here.

One of the newest one is a fairy paper doll pattern. The paper dolls come with patterns to cut and play or outline drawings to create your own.



I am working on a paper doll giveaway/contest and some tutorials as well as wanting to get back to paper doll swaps.

I've just been swamped with summer and unusual weather, and daily life. I can tell things are not going to slow down, so please forgive me if I fit everything in in crazy ways ; )

Beautiful distractions

The following is a collection of distractions that has cut my work time down. Spring flowers, my vegetable garden, the warm weather.

Sketchbook

I admire people with beautiful journals, and sketchbooks. I often draw and sketch on paper taken right out of the printer. The only flat surface not covered with a project (at least most of the time) is the small space in front of my computer. It is also one of the only places to sit down.

I sit there and listen to podcasts or music, and write down ideas as they pop into my head.This is where I keep them.

When I work on something I check here first. I have been working this way for a long time. I even write my artist way pages out on notebook paper loose pages that I grab from a pile.

On upcoming page I will show how I turn a sketch into a paper doll.

New plan

I am thinking about by paper doll ACEOs wanting to do something else with them. Maybe display them or put the in a book. I'm not sure. I don't know what to do next. I have taken them out of my Etsy shop because I have created new backgrounds and ribbons for hangings.

ideas i have been playing with

I have been playing with silhouettes and positive and negative space:



I'm going to try this with some of the drawings I have in my sketchbooks.



This one is a combination of pieces from other drawings.
I used Photoshop to fill in line drawings and cut and paste the pieces into a picture. I want to work this concept into a paper doll.

Story telling

I have been listening to Eric Maisel's pod casts on creativity. I am especially interested in his take on making meaning.

I want to add more meaning to my paper dolls, or at least include some of my thinking and process in the finished product.

Here is one of my latest paper dolls:



a close up:



her purse: