Painting Pianos

 Last weekend I have been busy Painting Pianos {well one of 4 pianos} 

In the Historic Village where I have my studio 'Young at Art', I have some new arty neighbours in the big red barn. They're called 'the Incubator' {awesome name he?} it's an artist collective set up as a charitable trust by some of local my artist buddies Simone Anderson and sculptor Lisa Meehan  The first community project in the barn is these pianos. They are going to be part of the Tauranga Arts Festival in October {or they might be used a little earlier as well} There are 4 pianos: 

  a Jackson Pollock style one

 

one inked up with tattoos

one will be yarnbombed

 and the one I worked on is the day of the Dead one. 

On Saturday I started the Burtonesque tree on the back of the piano 

and on Sunday after working on the tree some more...

 I started La Catrina on the side. It's still a work-in-progress, to be continued..... in the mean time......there are loads of photos made during these two days by different people and if you are on Facebook, come check them out.

Corpse Bride - revisited

A fellow artist Theresa from Faerie Moon Creations wrote a blogpost earlier this week about her favorite December-Movies and I have a bunch like that too. One we both seem to like is "Corpse Bride" by Tim Burton, I so looooove this ! I once did a Burtonesque painting inspired by this movie

  

Oh and I also did a set of ATCs in a homage to Mr. B.

Now it just so happened to happen that last night while I was painting on a commission (yes, I am commissioned ! deadline is Xmas !) there was a re-run (they are very good with those here..) of the Corpse Bride on TV and I didn't mind this at all, they can screen this again and again and I still love it, so today when I was trying to be quiet a bit to get rid of my headache, I painted another bride and sewed her on a paper doily and sewed that on a sturdy painted cardboard, I love her ♥ I got to try out how my new Aquabrush works at the same time. She is 22x21 cm and the back is the lovely blue/green paper on the topmost pic. I will put her up for sale, just because I know there are so many Burton fans about and it is just in time for Christmas

I will send her with a bunch of extra's for the festive season ♥

US$30

Around the World on Santa's Sleigh

Shipping Included

...~:♪♫♪:~...

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween to all !!! 

I hope you all have lots of fun Trick or Treat-ing :)

This post is just a bit of a selection

a postcard I made my Mother (still on it's way to you Mom !)

a Jack-O-Lantern Pumpkin Birthday cake with a wink to Tim Burton (for a commission)

and

my two Trick or Treat-ers this year

♥ 

Halloween

Frida Kahlo meets Coraline

ATCs I made for a swap with my friend Malin.

I know she likes Frida Kahlo

and maybe because Halloween is slowly creeping onto us

or maybe my mind started wandering for a change...

...so Frida met Coraline...

Handmade Dolls !

I have recently found some VERY special things about handmade dolls on-line and I just had to share this.

These ladies are truly amazing, their craftmanship is out of this world......

and I would love to try and make my own dolls now too.

Please check out the links, they are so worth it !

This is just one of many dolls made by Elsa Mora

and here is a little video of Sarah Faber making Tim Burtonesque kinda dolls

Beetlejuice

Last one in the set "Homage to Tim Burton"

Homage to Tim Burton

This is a set of ATCs I made for the

"Homage to Tim Burton" swap at atcsforall.com

Some Day My Prince will come

after watching Corpse Bride by Tim Burton before Christmas, I got inspired to make something Tim Burtonesque as well. So this is sort of a combination of that and the Frog Prince (I've got a thing for frogs you might have noticed)