Linda & Opie's Burnt Offerings

Our Who's Your Dada Book is now in Paperback

YAY -- it's here earlier than it's Oct 1st release date -- and it looks like this:

 

Please note: that although the title is a bit different - it's the same book as the Hardcover:

 

this was done to make it a bit easier to fit into a specific category. so if you're into creative doll making using recycled, upcycled, and found materials - then this step by step - how-to book is perfect for you!

Plus it has a gallery of dolls from the most creative artists ever, and they all explain their process!

*We have Hardcover copies in our Etsy Shop - each signed and then stamped with our custom made soul-mate stamp.

Fall Publications

we recently returned from teaching at Art and Soul Portland -- it was fantastic and we have lots of student photos from our 4 classes to sort through and blog about in the next week or so.

in the meantime we wanted to share our latest creation and some new publications we're in...

The Mistress of the Garden was created for the sept/oct issue of Cloth Paper Scissors available now. we wrote a really cool Halloween story to go along with it, as Halloween is a favorite holiday. enjoy!

 
here's a copy of the cover of the issue. 

 
we're also very excited to be one of the featured artists in the Fall issue of Studios magazine..... another great publication from Cloth Papaer Scissors. it features 7 pages of our studio. 

this weekend we teach at the SCC in Pittsburgh, but when we get back we'll immediately start preparing our blog post about Art and Soul Portland. The city is so artsy and so green. we fell in love with it.

more to come..............

 

Yay ... Who's Your Dada is here!

tah-dah -- It's here and we couldn't be more excited  

 
Inspired from the Dada notion of making art from materials that would not typically be combined, and written with our sense of irony and humor, this book features the work of 40 artists who define a doll AND share their process with you.

In addition, Opie and I offer step-by-step instructions for working with 5 very different substrates: a wood block - a two-sided canvas - tin - a book - and a box construction - and share our various methods of attachment and joinery and how we work with apoxie sculpt.
There are variation projects from our students AND an inspiring gallery of mixed-media dolls from some of the best artists EVER plus a bonus visual progression project from the amazing Keith Lo Bue.

This book has been described as a "must have" volume for anyone interested in found object art and the human form - but it is also a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the power, symbolism and cultural significance of dolls and representational figures -- and as is our style -- it's chock full of whimsy!

we hope you all love it as much as we do. signed copies are available in our etsy shop.

Have you seen July/Aug Cloth Paper Scissors yet...

well if you haven't, and if you're interested in our Collage a' Trois metal collages, then check it out!

we have an article and several of them are featured.

Mixed Vegetable Flakes is one of them:

there's more where this one came from, and metal collage is one of the new workshops that we're teaching at Art & Soul in Portland this fall. there's only a couple of spaces left and we hope you can join us.

and speaking of Art & Soul, we have some VERY exciting news to share with you in our next post... (we're sooooooo excited!!!)

An Interview with Cloth Paper Scissors

if you've been following our blog lately you'll see we've become obsessed with Metal Collage.

we've posted a picture or two of finished pieces and added a metal collage gallery to our website.

here's our latest ... Ex-Lax - Never a Dull Movement 

check out the interview on the Quilting Arts/Cloth Paper Scissors blog at: http://www.quiltingartsblog.com  (yes, i'm still working on creating proper links!)

 

and look for more artwork/articles from us in upcoming issues of Cloth Paper Scissors this year.

happy sunday!

A Sneak Peek at Who's Your Dada...

WOW!!!

doing the happy dance here....................

we just received our complimentary copy of the Winter Issue of Art Doll Quarterly magazine

which features 5 pages of our Dada Dolls

three of them will be in our upcoming book.

and while the magazine says it will be out in 2010,

the book will actually come out next fall.

   

in hardcover and chock-full of Everything!

Opie and I will take you hands-on through five different substrates and about a biz-illion techniques...

with a special bonus (but ... that's a secret for now)

and feature variations from some of our students and artist friends

plus an Odd Dolls & Dadas section - that goes beyond a gallery and includes work from a variety of National and International artists...

each of them defining a doll and sharing their process 

... Oh Happy, Happy, Happy, Day!

45 artists will be featured in all - but for a sneak peek - pick up the Winter issue of Art Doll Quarterly.