
Left: Flower Symbolism - gift for Mother's
Day See close up of earrings. She carries a tiny gold purse (from Backyard
Gifts)
Center:
Using recycled jewelry parts (head neck and hips portion from Robin Monville
Backyard Gifts) - arms have since been shortened
Right: This doll is inspired by a painting by Lynn Barth
Red Hat doll is made from Tooling foil. Flowers
(images from the Internet - many thanks to the photographers for use of
their flower images) were collaged
on to the foil - then shapes were cut out. Vincent Van Gogh's Irises
were also used. Face, hands and feet are
Sculpey. Hat is Sculpey with flowers collaged. Tiny silver brads hook Red
Hat doll together. You could use eyelets. Red Hat doll is inspired by the
poem "Warning" by Jenny Joseph. Robin
Monville sent me a "Goodie" in my order. The doll in the
center, "Queenie", uses that item (The head - with beaded torso - and fabric textured
hips). I added the shoulders and fabric collaged onto cardboard for arms
and legs (Arms have since been shortened - use your imagination) - and embellished with puffy paints. Jump rings were made from copper
wire. The doll on the right is a composite of costumes in a painting by
Lynn Barth (my adaptation) - using fabric and cut paper collage onto
cardboard (face mold from Backyard Cards and Gifts).
More dolls to come - as well as some brief "How-tos".
Robin Monville sells a variety of molds if you would like to try these
with molded faces. I will do a sample with a digital photo face too.

See close up of hands earrings
More lesson details to come
Submitted by Cynthia Gaub, Virtual
Classroom
Collage
People
Materials:
- colored paper
- handmade paper
- tissue paper
- magazines
- scissors
- glue sticks, Elmer's glue
- pencils
- markers
- brads
- card stock paper
- Look
through magazine for animal and/or people heads, arms, legs and
bodies. Have fun mixing and matching! Create something new!
- Cut them
out with some extra space and glue them to a piece of card stock paper
with a glue stick (or Elmer's). Smooth and LET DRY. The card stock
will make your people stronger and better able to more.
- Cut out
body parts again with card stock paper backing, closer to the edge of
your picture.
- CAREFULLY
use brads to attach body parts together. (Provide an awl to make
holes)
- On a new
piece of paper create a COLLAGE background and attach people to the
background. Try mounting figure in relief (using foam core scraps) so
arms and legs can move.
Resources:
Molds: Robin Monville
Backyard Cards and Gifts All faces on this page were made with
molds approximately 1" wide. Cat Face started with a round face -
then muzzle and ears were added.
Jerri
Reimann - Art by Jerri Fine Art Paper Dolls
Paper
Doll Template you can adapt this pattern from Chia's
Rubber Stamp Art
Flat Paper Dolls Lesson Plan Page.
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