My first Steelers Nation Tattoo Men — three barrel chested, pin headed, massive armed guys. After drawing the tattoos and assembling the bodies, here are the completed men. Each almost 3 feet tall! Long legs, very squeezable (muscle? fat?) torsos, and ambivalent faces. Now that I’ve warmed up with these basic guys, time to take a crack at the big-time tattoo men!
A brainflash woke me up yesterday morning. I had been planning on giving a PandaMom-PandaKid set of dolls to Lucy & Gail for their upcoming charity auction. But why not make a hairy Samoan instead? So I took a few hours in the morning, a few in the afternoon, and Troy Polamalu The Doll was born.
More simple faces, more tongue! Though I gave into mouthpiece-ear-limb temptations. And then there’s the plaid, rescued from a Cape Cod skirt, to go with the pink bathrobe that has gone into the tongue.
This is one of my first dolls ever, my first monster. He’s from Mairead’s clothes, a red hoodie, a green-pink t-shirt, and some green sweater from Uncle Karl. Very red, very bouncy, a permanent resident of Pittsburgh.
I found this magazine yesterday at JoAnns, and after paging through it for 15 minutes, decided it was worth the 13 dollars.
After I got in line with it, two other women decided to buy it too.
Full of bizarre, misshapen cuteness (and sometimes threatening too).
You can see some screen shots from the latest issue here at the publishers site. Here are some of my favorites!
The evil-Picasso faces are by Cynthia Patton, I love them:)
And the Pickles — they remind me of my favorite doll growing up, Super Pickle! He wore Chuck Taylors and had a cape with a big P on the back.
Upon request, a Jamie Doll! Complete with black blazer (removable for extra comfort), charcoal grey Converse All Stars, and Decemberists t-shirt. I need to make more Boy Dolls for 2010, or at least lots more dolls in sneakers. Resolution!
It is Kara The Doll!
In the general image of the great + legendary Kara herself. Blonde, in a violet leotard(?), glasses + green eyes.
She was in my first crop of dolls ever produced, and she was supposed to be completed in time for Kara to arrive in Pittsburgh.
But! Kara The Person got there early enough that she saw Kara The Doll filled with stick pins — particularly through the face. The mouth wasn’t totally on — so the needle was going straight through her lips.
A little disturbing I know, but she is intact + pinless now. A Proud Resident of Baltimore!
I made her in honor of Junior High teaching legend (and Number One Tom Selleck-Stone Philips fan) Miss Mullen. But Andy, who bought her last spring in Pittsburgh, decided she was a boy librarian — and the appropriate mascot for his professional wrestling persona — Andy The Librarian. You decide:
I sewed her several years back, she was one of my first five dolls. I did her face on the long flight, Pittsburgh-Berkeley, the stewardess found her disturbing. Ridiculous! I think she’s got a remarkably pleasant face, and her roly polyness is very pokable.
Andy had me sew her a red felt book that velcro on and off her hands — more of the librarian! — so she can enforce.
