MEAT

my most recent oil painting, a comment on the nature of beauty. One is of meat hanging on hooks and the other is of a fahionable woman wearing raw meat for hair.

20 x 24 inches, and an experiment in impasto painting.

meat-tastic!

Dance, puppets, dance!

My marionettes! I really adore dolls and puppets and want to keep working on methods to perfect them. The first three are a strange, seemingly french family, the largest can't be taller than 9 inches. They are made of sculpey clay, wire, and acrylic paint. The bottom one in a doll version of myself using my meager sewing skills to create a lovely blue dress for her.

Evolutionary sketches

this is a series I titled "The Investigative renderings of Evolutionary theorist E.W. Spoonfingle". It was supposed to represent these pages from this scientist's notebook of strange creatures that he sketched. We are supposed to wonder if he really saw them or not. There are 6 drawings, pencil on folio paper. This was a fun for me because I am a evolution geek. hurrah!

self portrait mania

perhaps I am rushing into this blogging business. Self portraits would have been a swell way to start. I have always liked drawing myself (I have fun hair to draw)

the third image is a life size paper doll of myself I've titled "paper doll self portrait as a fleeing but fatally wounded deer". The first image is in the style of Mucha.

These were all done with pencil and acrylic paint.

insect specimens

my latest project: I wanted to make a realistic collection of insect specimens. All of the insects are acrylic paintings on paper. I made the shadowboxes because realism was important to me. Half of the bugs are invented, but I wanted to draw them believably so people might think they were real. Bug-tastic!

paper dolls

I love paper dolls, always have. I love pretty things but I also love weird things, and there you have it. I started making paper dolls this past summer in the incredible tedium. (I even went to a paper doll convention...when I told my friends they said" uh...we're gonna go to a party..." I was the only person at the convention under 70! I also met paper doll god Tom Tierny and almost passed out)

I had quietly lingered a long time on etsy but never mustered up the gusto to sell anything there. I couldn't get doll enthusiast magazines to publish my dolls. Forlorn, I opened my shop unsure if anyone would like or care about my paper dolls. And lo, I've had some small success, including having my conjoined twin paper doll published at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia (a museum of medical abnormalities, of course!)

I am trying to create a revolution in paper dolls, where you can change their clothes but not their tragic situation.

I think creating paper dolls combines my love of history, costume, illustration, and general creativity.




if you feel so inclined, visit my etsy shop:

lelapintriste.etsy.com

whats all this then?

I am trying to keep up with the times (I refer to my computer as the "magic box") and am starting a blog to devote to my various art happenings! I daresay you should stay tuned!