Pilisa's Place

FINALLY!!!  She’s here!  Actually, I think that it’s rather appropriate that she was born in the spring…

I have been finishing up the last of my ARTsignments for my ARTbundance Coach Training.  We were supposed to create our muse the first week of class, but I could see her so clearly in my mind it didn’t seem all that necessary to bring her into the physical world.  That seemed especially true since I had never made an art doll before and had no idea how to translate what I saw in my head into physical reality.

Now that she’s finished, I have to say that I was wrong, wrong wrong!  She is beautiful and is an inspiration for me to continue on my path – more than I could ever have suspected.  I’m glad that I was willing to get out of my comfort zone and take the plunge.  Along the way, I listened to her urgings and directions for how to bring her into reality.  My muse was helping me create my muse!

Notes about her construction:  She’s made of a base of tin foil, over which I layered some white velvet fabric dyed to create some skin to hide the tin foil (you can see it in the photo between her dress and her face).  I added a face made from polymer clay formed in a mold – which I altered after popping it out of the mold to give her a smile – and colored it with alcohol inks in a sort of reddish-brown tint since she’s out in the sun as often as possible.  Then I added some moss for hair with my hot glue gun and although you really can’t see it very well in the photo, she has a peacock feather tucked into her hair at the top like a crown.  Her dress is made out of printed moleskin with the bird added as an embellishment after I sewed her into her dress.  Her arms and legs are twigs, attached with wire and hot glue.  The wire feet I added at the very end to help stabilize her leg to the base I’ve attached her to.  The base is so lightweight that I may need to add some rocks or something else heavy to stabilize it, since she’s just a tad wobbly.  I have to admit that I’m a little reluctant to do that, since she is so light in spirit!