WOW!
I am more than impressed by Ricë Freeman-Zachery’s great article! Thank you Ricë !
Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog! Take a second to peek around and check out some of my previous posts. Of course, I would love to find out what you think as well, so make sure to comment. See you around! More ...In the last issue of the leading German Doll Magazine Puppen & Spielzeug this four page article was published about me AND an article that I wrote about NIADA. The article about me was written by Ruth Ndouop Kalajian, a pleasant person to work with. In the headline she calls me the Storyteller. Nice!
01
Jan
Reina Mia Brill
Always nice to see an artist at work. Especially if it is my friend and fellow NIADA artist Reina Mia Brill!
31
Dec
3d art
I found this very interesting website of Dutch artist Eric van Straaten that I want to share having some mixed feelings about it. The work is 3D printed, very interesting. I would like to see a 3D printer working maybe even try something for myself. But……it is plastic and I don’t like the material although it seems to work for this artist’s pieces. Then I thought: OK we all can stop doll making now because this work is so much better than what we do. But later I thought: wait a minute, this Eric van Straaten has a specific signature. That means that if I or one of my fellow doll artists would start working in this technique the result would be completely different. Remains the fact that I don’t like plastic.
24
Dec
the onion story
One of my friends in Prague told me that you could forecast the winter cold by counting the brown skirts of an onion. Few skirts means not a cold winter and many skirts means a cold winter. We were joking about buying onions grown in China so we only could forecast the winter weather in China 
It would be great to know if the winter will be extremely cold. We are still doubting about getting our car winter tyres.
Yesterday I had to clean a lot of onions for a meal so I remembered this story. I checked the bag and YES: made in Holland! So I started peeling and counting.
This is what I found, all in the same bag:
two onions with 4 brown skirts
one onion with 3 brown skirts
two onions with 2 brown skirts
three onions with 1 brown skirt
A bit confusing. So I guess our winter will be the same as usual: a few cold days, a little bit snow and many gray days. Or, as we say in the Netherlands: `Het kan vriezen, het kan dooien` (It could freeze, it could melt) meaning we will see what will happen.
18
Dec
Made myself an Avatar
I changed myself into an Avatar with Photoshop after finding this tutorial on internet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU31giMd624&NR=1&feature=endscreen
It was meant to do this with my students but I wanted to try it myself first. It is not perfect and it is quite a lot of work but it was fun to do. The tutorial shows step by step how to do this. The tutorial is in English.
10
Dec
Living Dolls in Prague
At a Doll Show in Prague last weekend I saw those two living dolls. I was told that the girl on the left is dressed in steampunk style. They tried to explain me the concept of steampunk. Something with Jules Verne and industrial revolution. As far as I know the style of the girl on the right is gothic lolita. Correct me if I am wrong. I like them both.
Left of them my friend Ankie Daanen is just visible in the crowd.
13
Nov
Amazing
18
Aug
Fighting the clouds 2
Yes! New piece finished. I finally could use a lot of this really beautiful silver lace I was collecting for ages.
I made the piece for the special NIADA theme exhibition “Up in the clouds”, hoping I understood the theme right.
The piece is called Fighting the Clouds (2) because what else could you fight on a toy horse The 2 means that I used the theme before.
18
Aug
NIADA helper
NIADA asks the artist members for a “helper”. That is a doll or doll related item that all conference attendees can win in a raffle by buying tickets and putting them in the box by the helper(s) they desire to win. It is always an exciting moment after the banquet to see who wins what.
This year I made a special helper piece. The base is a wooden spoon I found on a flea market. I added wheels. The mask is sculpted in air dry clay. The piece has copper wings, a bell and some other embellishments. I guess this is as close as I will ever come to steampunk
