Back in 2014 I decided to take Julie Haymaker's "Let's Go For A Ride" class at Artful Gathering. The project called for making an adorable little mixed media shadow box scene with 3 pets sticking their heads out the window of a car that was driving over a hill. The class looked like it would be a lot of fun to take so I decided to take it.
A kit was available for purchase from Julie's Etsy shop so I ordered one as it's a lot easier to do that than run around to get supplies. The kit came with everything you needed to create the project including thread and needle. It was fabulous.
Well, in looking at Julie's kits for sale she had some unusual unfinished wood pieces for making several different types of mixed media dolls. Julie is a remarkable mixed media artist who has an eye for unusual art doll creations and her unfinished wood kits were available as a tool to help you with this.
So, of course I bought a few and decided to make mixed media snow faeries.
Pixie, Dixie, and Mixie are 13" tall winter mixed media snow faeries. All three have been basically made the same except for different embellishments or scrapbook collage papers I used.
The doll kit contained an already built unfinished art doll with a white paper-clay face attached to a white painted wood finial piece which was affixed atop a papier-mâché round box with covered top. Everything was painted white.
Pixie is the faerie doll shown in the photo collage above.
Mixie is the faerie doll shown in the photo collage above.
Dixie is the faerie doll shown in the photo collage above
I painted their faces with a combination of acrylic paint and watercolor paints. Modeling paste was used to add texture to their snow hair.
Their arms were already fashioned out of wire so I just added Alene's True Snow accents to them as well as throughout their bodies. Mixed media fibers have been used around their necks as a decoration.
They already had unfinished wood finial bodies which I sponge painted with winter metallic paint colors. Unfinished wood snowflakes were embossed with metallic powders and glued to the and/or back of their wood finial bodies. Scrapbook paper embellishments were also added to the front and/or back of their wood finial bodies as well as glitter ribbons tied in bows. Puffy metallic paint was used to embellish the embossed snowflake decorations.
Decorative mixed media fibers were tied around the bottom of the wood finial bodies as well as scrapbook paper word phrases.
The wood finial piece for their bodies was affixed to white painted papier-mâché round boxes with covered tops. I used different scrapbook collage papers to decorate the boxes and added word stickers or winter image stickers for embellishments. Mixed media fibers were wrapped around the top rim of the round boxes and Alene's True Snow was added throughout as decorative winter accents.
Several years ago I had bought some adorable and colorful teal blue glitter silk floral stems and have been wanting to use them ever since. Finally, the right application came along. I thought they would be perfect in the backs of the faeries to make it seem like the faeries were among the reeds of a winter forest.
I was really pleased with the way all three of the mixed media winter snow faeries came out.
The doll kit contained an already built unfinished art doll with a white paper-clay face attached to a white painted wood finial piece which was affixed atop a papier-mâché round box with covered top. Everything was painted white.
Mixie is the faerie doll shown in the photo collage above.
Dixie is the faerie doll shown in the photo collage above
I painted their faces with a combination of acrylic paint and watercolor paints. Modeling paste was used to add texture to their snow hair.
They already had unfinished wood finial bodies which I sponge painted with winter metallic paint colors. Unfinished wood snowflakes were embossed with metallic powders and glued to the and/or back of their wood finial bodies. Scrapbook paper embellishments were also added to the front and/or back of their wood finial bodies as well as glitter ribbons tied in bows. Puffy metallic paint was used to embellish the embossed snowflake decorations.
The wood finial piece for their bodies was affixed to white painted papier-mâché round boxes with covered tops. I used different scrapbook collage papers to decorate the boxes and added word stickers or winter image stickers for embellishments. Mixed media fibers were wrapped around the top rim of the round boxes and Alene's True Snow was added throughout as decorative winter accents.
Several years ago I had bought some adorable and colorful teal blue glitter silk floral stems and have been wanting to use them ever since. Finally, the right application came along. I thought they would be perfect in the backs of the faeries to make it seem like the faeries were among the reeds of a winter forest.
I was really pleased with the way all three of the mixed media winter snow faeries came out.
They are cheery and will make a great winter season decoration.
Now where should I put them........
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