Day of the Dead miniatures

El Dia de los Muertos is NEVER out of season around my household ( or in my studio)...  sugar skulls and catrinas are displayed and hand-crafted year round!  But it had never occurred to me to make the little figures to go into the matchbox shrines that I adore so much until...

Last year, I joined in on a shrine swap hosted by the fabulous retrocafeart.com and I found a new love of creating these tiny little sculpts of clay and wire...  I am ABSOLUTELY hooked!  Hope you enjoy !

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Just finished a new assemblage that I am proud of...  one of those pieces that you just can't stop working on once you get it in your head (yes, I can be a TAD bit art obsessed).  Hope you like it... it's titled "PEACE WITHIN" and the meaning of peace within for me is that I truly believe that peace within can only begin when your heart and your head work together in harmony.

 

I started with a tiny steampunk heart I sculpted out of polymer clay.  That was added to a some of the inner workings of a vintage pocket watch.                                                                      

 Then , I fashioned a tiny steampunk head out of a Retro Café Head Shrine and some more of those pocket watch pieces...   

 ...all was added to a thrift store shadow box that I aged and then backed with the cover of a vintage book (which was cut to size). To finish it, we go back to Retro Café for a tiny plaque (from a pack of label pull style frames) which was decopauged with vintage song lyrics and rubbed with gilder's paste and a scavenged metal piece off of an old window frame.  I like the way it all came together-  I hope you do too!  Namaste!

"Creative Spark" fairy for the RetroCafe Art Gallery fairy swap

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