STUDIO OF BONNIE JONES

Three New pieces

I have three new pieces-- two have landed at Spooky Time Jingles and one piece is going to ODACA for their annual convention on July 18th at the Chicago Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chicago.  There will be items donated by ODACA atists that can be purchased through a raffle ticket.  The Green Witch is my donation. 

All of my work is One of A Kind (OOAK) never to be created again...I get bored very easy, so that is why this is the journey I decided to travel with my creations.  These three pieces were a joy to create and now my brain is tired and my muse cannot see anything new right now....hope I can get started again...I have some ornaments to make..

 
The Green Witch is sculpted out of puppen fimo and painted; her wings are made of muslin over wire and painted with cloth clay and then acrylics.  Her base is a combination of mosaic tiles, beads and decorated with apoxie clay.

 
The Snow Angels...this piece is sculpted entirely out of paper clay over a very strong wire armature. The moon has been painted and crackled and the angels are covered with German glass glitter and tiny iridescent baubles.  Larger glass baubles are on the base with the stars and the entire base has been covered with vintage mica....  

 
Mister Pumpkin Head...I love pumpkin heads and this one is so special.  He is 12" and sculpted from paper clay over a strong wire armature. I dressed him in vintage black velvet and hand dyed silk gauze.  His staff is paper clay over a heavy wire.  The base is painted and decorated with apoxie clay. 

 

Article in 2010 August issue of "Doll Crafter & Costuming"

I have had quite a few articles written about my art work, but I must say after talking to me on the phone for about an hour or longer, Sharon Verbeten captured me and my art work just beautifully.  The Editor of the magazine, Heidi Heiderman, did a wonderful 8 page layout of my pictures along with the article.  Heidi asked me to do a tutorial...because so many tutorials have been done, I decided to do one on my mosaic bases and was pleased with the way it turned out and the pictures they used. I tried to scan or take pictures of  each page and just could not get them to look right, so I will put a picture of the front of the magazine and the first page of the article...hope some of you will pick up the magazine, it has some beautiful work of other fantasy artists.

 

 
 

June Garden Tour 2010

I have been outside taking pictures of our garden before the summer heat sets in and flowers begin to look tired.  Stroll with me and enjoy.

This pot of flowers is on the steps by the front door which we seldom use. A tiny wren has built her nest in the pot and we have to be careful when we water the flowers.

 
There are two tiny eggs in the nest.

 

Martins feeding their babies...boy that house sure got dirty

 
 Mushrooms I collect to put in the flowers around our fountain

 

 

 

 

 
Basil and tomatoes