Foundling
Threadbare
Mimics: Sprouting Tubers
Mimics, Series One
Belladore
Dolls
Spider Tina
Tasha, aka Werdiga, makes adorable (well, for some of us) dolls from polymer clay, faux fur, and fabric.
Little Dragon Merton of the Dog World, in progress
Look at that face! How can you not love a face like that.
Sleepy Kitten
Little Kitty
She doesn’t just make spiders and monsters. There are also adorable kitties and other critters.
Spider Sinchyrinchium
Sweet Couple
And spiders. Really cool spiders.
Check out her Etsy shop to take one home.
Thass’right, instead of the usual links, you get a massive doll post for doll week! We will return to our usual programming on Monday.
Kessan
Anastasia
Pherentikus
Strange Little Girls
SweetSign
El Dodo Albino
Nnhmn
Jesse Rubin
Snotnormal
Alia the Ghoul
Nymla
Mar-rie
Stefanie Vega
Von Borowsky
Lisa Toms
Sothis
Silver Aqua Dragon Spirit
Woodlings
Newborn Dragon Spirit
Flicker Dolls
Flicker Amida
Shakumi
The White Beast
Barbatos
Kaori
Rat Dragon
BlueBelle Cénéré
Mars Glitter
Bluebelle Oceane
Melita Curphy
Klaus the Archaeopteryx
Henson the Catmander
Santos the Lucha Libre Jaguar
Baby Owlbears
Van Craig
Macy’s Holiday Window
Gnome
The Pink Fairy
Shain Erin
(I admit, most of Erin’s work is too creepy even for me)
Fallen
Annabel Lee
Cecilia
Conjoined triplets
Kevin Hill
Ezekiel
Vertiline
Imogen
Dustin Poche
Contessa
Three Spirits
Coronation
Ira Deineko
Milky Way
Blizzard
Shades of Grey
I have a massive backlog in my Dolls folder, so this week, you are getting link dumps of dolls. All week. I won’t be expounding like I would in a regular feature–just pictures and links to stuff I like.
Enchanted Legacy LLC
Ambrosia
Magena
Michele Lynch
Emily
Darcy
Katianna
Amano Katan (1953-1990)
One of the founding fathers of the creepy doll movement.
Mewiefish
xb12
Radegoutant
Idoll stock
White Pollen
Надежда Жубрева (Akh)
Jewel (Amethyst)
Marmite Sue is the nom-de-poupée of Eli Effenberger-Satoh.
Venus
Rose dentelle
The Israeli-born artist originally began in fashion. She attended the prestigious Hogeschool Antwerpen, and was a finalist in the 2005 ITS. In what seemed an overnight change to others in the field, Eli left. While she loved fashion, she knew there would be a great deal of time spent meeting and greeting the public. Fearing she would have trouble with the social aspect of the business, she looked for something that suited both her talent and personality.
Effeberger’s doll suit from ITS 2005.
For my ITS#FOUR collection I created a doll suit that could be worn by a human though remaining a doll in its own right, without the actual need for a body to be beautiful. By doing this I felt extremely free. A doll was a free stand alone canvas for me…
Red Jenny
Red Jenny
It was the tension between clothing and body, the silhouette and line that made the final look beautiful. And that was extremely interesting to me….A certain type of beauty could be suggested at times not just by correcting the human silhouette but by exaggerating it and distorting it.
Noi face with carousel body
Teacup Rocaille
Arkenstone
The fantastical lace, filligree, and other sculptural elements are so potent , they can distract from the perfect, delicate detail of the face, hands, and feet.
Hands
Faberge Feet
Now based in Tokyo, Heffenberger-Satoh is constantly evolving, creating new body types. They receive apt names, like AngelEgg, Rocaille, Dentelle, and Carousel.
Cameo, an AngelEgg doll
Cameo close up
Merry Go-Round, a Carousel doll
New Dentelle doll
The Fabergé style is named after Peter Carl Fabergé, an artist she greatly admires. Charlotte is a larger work, with a carousel and music box embedded in her torso.
Charlotte
She works mostly in porcelain, and she and her father have recently developed Moonglass, a shatter-resistant porcelain with a gorgeous, translucent finish.
Moonglass
I was hoping for something that would be as nice and as long lasting as porcelain, but to my incredible delight, we could actually come up with a material that is entirely beautiful in it`s own right.
Little Rose
Coco
Fie
Primavera/Spring Unicorn
You can find Marmite Sue at her website, Tumblr, facebook, and Flickr account.
Eli and Rose
Custom Charyon
You may have seen the work of Steintr011, aka Bezhevenkiy Kozlik. She makes adorable, amazing characters from polyclay, fabric, and faux fur.
Custom owl
I wanted to know more, so she graciously answered some questions for me via email.
Momojok 1
Bezhevenkiy has been making dolls for three years, inspired by the work of other doll makers.
Hyena Doll Commission
“My dolls made of Super Sculpey, faux fur and painted with acrylic paint (Pebeo firm is my favorite). I also use moveable plastic armatures and resin.”
Zombie Beast
Set
“All of my dolls started with at least one sketch. After that I start sculpting – my favorite part, I must say. Then I paint clay parts and attach them to sewed body.”
Dragon Cub
I asked her if there was a doll that was particularly special to her.
Beast Buzz
“Definitely Beast Buzz is a special one to me. He was my first DD on deviantart and he is the only doll that I do not sell or gift.”
Dacke
“My dream is only to have my dolls make people smile and make them a little happier. And it does not depend on whether you buy them or just look at them in my gallery, if there are people who like my art, I’m super happy.”
Kozlik’s work can be found on her DeviantArt page and her Tumblr. There’s also an Etsy shop, but it’s empty, as I imagine everything is snapped up instantly.
They certainly add happiness to my day.
Foo-Owl-Dragon Skolg
Kelly Chehardy creates gorgeous fantasy dolls under the moniker Majestic Thorns.
Ondine
She uses Cernit (my personal favorite) or FIMO Puppen for her dolls. They are painted with acrylics, and given a gloss coat.
Kaori
Faces are haunting an melancholy.
Datura
Sculpted details add elements of the fantastic.
Lady in White
Costumes are elaborate and expressive.
Aurelia
You can find Majestic Thorns on facebook or her website, and you can buy her dolls, as well as costume pieces, at her Etsy shop.
Persephone
