A new month...well half way through a new month! And Artist Block?

Greeting and Salutations one and all!

I hope September has been kind to you. For me it has defiantly brought a challenge. I was working away one day on a new doll and the next day it was like I forgot how to do it!? I woke up and it hit me BAM! I lost my creative spark...where it went I do not know? This, in my 31 years on the planet earth has never happened to me, noppers. It's not just the loss of some invisible friend who was always there for me, through the bad, good and unnecessary. It is more then that. I woke up and lost three decades worth of muscle memory I obtained in my hands. I hold a pen it feels like the first time, needle and threat as well.

I sat at my desk then the couch, next a chair finally ending up of the floor with my sketchbook looked like a two year old was doodling in it pages. I tried  to illustrate...nope. I tried to paint...that was way to messy! I took out my clay and normally my hands would have worked it into something decent but this time it was just a messy blob...don't get me started at the state of one dolls poor arm after I couldn't remember how to even do a simple straight stich! So on the floor I lay (melodrama runs in my family) with sketchbook in hand terrible frustrated wondering if I had some sort of stroke in the night (I did mention about the melodrama right!).

Well needless to keep repeating but I really feel like some part of me I didn't really know I had is gone? I have talked it over the friends and family members they all as the same thing 'don't worry it will come back' 'sounds like a case of writers block' 'stop pouting about it' The last one being my favorite. I like to retorted with. 'I haven't pouted since I was 16, I'm due for a good pout!'

So everyone what the hell is this? Not a creative idea in my mind. Not the hand ability to make it if it popped up and such a strange felling of 'Oh! I didn't know what I had till it was gone!'
Even now...today am looking through my portfolio at some illustrations I did only two weeks ago and I can't believe I did them they are like a foreign entity that just materialized there...

So I guess I'll call it Artist Block even though I would not call the feeling a block it feels like empty air in my soul (and the Oscar for the most melodramatic blog post goes to...) Anyhoo I know with seven billion people on the planet I can't be the only one this has happened to...right? Anyone, anyone else? Hello?...

So I will put some new 'old' illustrations in my store. Gotta keep up appearance I say...

Oh and for though of you with a million ideas to help, from working out to finding a muse, I have tried for a week now...I pulled a bicep and my muse just runs away (note to self a horse makes a terrible muse! Next time bring carrots!)

'the royally sucks!' my 16 year old self says! And I am starting to agree with her.

August 3 2013

Well now what a difference a week makes! I have been rethinking my online shop's...I have three. I know what you are thinking 'wow that's a lot' and yes it is. I find some of them sell well some of them don't. I thought streamline it all and focus on one store to get the best in sales. I also have been thinking of the amount and or different types of art I do...well it's a lot so I'm streamlining that as well. So my new store is call 'Curiosity Dolls' featuring couture rag/cloth dolls. I will have three main price points so anyone can afforded a beautiful doll!

                                          My sites new banner...Curiosity Dolls are coming.

Working on 'The White Queen' from through the looking glass. She about 25" tall (I should measure her soon). She has a full corset, sewn on wig and beautiful hand painted face...working on her skirt right now. She also has the cutest bloomers I have ever made:)

 

For those of you wondering about my open heart dolls and the charmed dolls I am fazing them out in favor of the couture line. Frankly I have to go with what sells, but take heart (pardon the pun) some will be for sale at Curiosity Dolls (address to follow in future posts).

More dolls in a photo shoot...

July 25 2013

I have finished three more dolls. Miranda the Mermaid, Li the Pixie, and Robin the Fairy. They all have the super luxurious Doctored Locks Professional Shape Shifter Monofiber. It feels and styles like a dream with a heat set temperature of 400o (a lot like human hair). On the down side it very finicky to work with because it is so fine and many time's I had to reminded myself to have patience with it. I work with either glued wefts or sewn. I'm starting to use only sewn although I find that glued wefts bond better I'm enjoying the challenge of making dolls wigs so all that said from now on every doll will have in it's listing what type of weft used to give the buyer a better understanding of how they can be treated (the hair and the doll).


                                                  Here are some pictures of the new dolls...

                                                             Here's Li the Pixie...

And Miranda the Mermaid

                                                      ...last but not least Robin the Fairy

They will be here: www.etsy.com/ArwenEnchanted

July 15 2013

Happy Monday!

Doll hair comes today! Well I'm excited...so I hope it's what the company say's it is. I've only have great interactions with them, so you know. I will post pic's and you can ask questions about it if you want to. Here are some pictures of the Pink fairy and the sea-green Mermaid.

                                         
                                                         Fairy Wings are done.



                                             
                                                      Mermaid...in sea green.

I've been trying a new 'deeper/darker' style of eyes. I wanted a lot of depth so I think I'm on the right track. The body blushing came out just like I envisioned, which doesn't happen often.

Charmed I'm Sure!

July 14 2013

Good Day One and All!

I've started blogging about my artwork...I do ever so hope you enjoy! Just started the line work on my 2014 calendar, so yay to that. My Open Heart-Charmed cloth dolls are doing well and I will have more for sale by Wednesday the 17th of July. I will eventually be calling them the Charmed line, but for now I want people to associate the two.

                                         Angel's! Yep...the calendar will be graphic and colourful.

 

 

 

                                          *bald isn't the best look ladies*
                                        
 Hair is coming Monday. I'm so excited it's super luxurious, soft and heat resisted up to 400o! (that means it can be curly, styled, straighten just like human hair). The Pink is a fairy and the green a Mermaid...

Here are the links so you too can own your very own Charmed Doll.
www.etsy.com/shop/ArwenEnchanted
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=251303645417