For your sake I have braved the glen And had to do with goblin merchant men ["Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti] imWalde is proud to announce a new shop (companion to The Bone Forest Collection) called GOBLINESQUERIE, which features curious and creepy artefacts from the forest’s underbelly – assemblage jewelry, ritual implements, decorative art, and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘dolls’
Goblinesquerie
Posted in ImWalde, tagged animals, antler, art, bones, crafts, creepy, decor, dolls, etsy, fairies, felt, goblins, gothic, jewelry, skulls, taxidermy, teeth, weird on October 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A Chair for Thornapple
Posted in Crafts, tagged decorative, dolls, painting, plants, poison on September 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Awhile back I acquired a very special doll – no one else could see it, shoved amongst dirty stuffed animals at the thrift store as she was, but I knew. I took her home and commenced altering her appearance to match the story I could feel inside her – a sad tale of Victorian asylums [...]
The Sultan’s Elephant
Posted in Inspirations, tagged dolls, England, marionettes, puppets, videos on July 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A haunting video of “The Sultan’s Elephant,” a giant marionette show in the streets of London, where the main character, a little girl, is operated by cranes and pulleys and huge cables, and yet has an undeniable aura of life to her. Her eyes, especially, are so real.
It’s all in the eyes
Posted in Inspirations, tagged creatures, creepy, dolls, eyes, Jim Henson, masks, muppets, puppets, weird on March 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Most of the faces I make don’t have eyes. When I was much younger and painted, my figures usually had their eyes closed. Later on, I became fascinated with masks, but almost all of mine had hollow spaces there (if worn, they might be filled by human eyes, but otherwise they stared, empty, from the [...]
Interesting Etsy Artists, Round 2
Posted in Inspirations, tagged Alice in Wonderland, art, bookbinding, dolls, etsy, faerieworlds, fairytales, felt, masks, videos on January 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A follow-up to my previous post on some of my favorite Etsy shops, I wanted to promote a few more here. I first saw Art of the Mask in person, at the Faerieworlds winter event here in Eugene. I was especially captivated by her non-wearable, art masks, such as Hypnos, featured here. There is [...]
Ci Annwn – a doll for Hallows
Posted in Crafts, tagged animals, bones, costume, creepy, dog, dolls, England, folklore, Halloween, marionettes, pagan, photos, Wild Hunt on November 4, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This years Hallows celebration involved some pretty heavy ritual where I donned the guise of the Master of the Wild Hunt (more along British folklore traditions than Scandinavian, but I digress…). As part of the costume, I made a spirit vehicle in the form of a doll – something to represent an actual spirit, in [...]
Small woodland dolls
Posted in Crafts, tagged art, crafts, dolls, forest, photos on October 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
While I work on more elaborate doll-making, I’ve been amusing myself with these – small primitive dolls made by decorating simple wooden forms. My first one, a sort of invocation of winter when I was really sick of warm weather. Made from scraps of sweaters, yarn, and sitting on moss: My second one, made for [...]
Dolls Are Creepy
Posted in Inspirations, tagged art, creepy, dolls, etsy, film, marionettes, puppets, videos on August 24, 2010 | 4 Comments »
There, I said it. Dolls are really creepy. Not just strange dolls, dolls that are intentionally weird or kind of goth or old-fashioned (don’t even get me started on creepy puppets and marionettes, those will probably be another post altogether, because I love them even more), but old dolls you find in thrift stores and [...]
