Some DeMeng Inspired Art

A week or so ago I blogged on ArtFest.   and I said to stay tuned for my pieces from Michael DeMengs class.

I had a lot of fun on this one, combining a lizard and a small doll and a guitar. The earring for a head piece was added towards the end. During the critique I mentioned how the first time I took a workshop from him at Art & Soul my pieces looked just like his and now I am branching out to combine his style with my sense of color and whimsey.

 Here we have a skull head with a dog body standing on a rubber stamp. The monopoly top hat was given to me as one one my trades and worked out perfect. It is attached to an old metal frame.

 One of the fun things I learned in class this time was how to create different hairstyles for the dolls using a heat gun. Here we have a lovely bouffant on the cat/girl. Two earrings make up the tiara. I brought some pages from an old novel and found the perfect words to fit the piece..."escaped again"

 Here's a piece I had started on before I went to Art Fest...

 ...and came together after Helen, who sat beside me in class and had come all the way from England gave me this little piece of real parchment from 1775. It had to be honored in some way and was the perfect fit for my little door! Helen was so sweet as my hand had cramped up so bad from squeezing some DAP that I couldn't move my finger and she massaged it out for me.

 This one still in the works

As well as this piece on Frogs....