I posted on March 26th about our author schedule of make and takes at Unique LA and Tally Oliveau of this amazing new book Mixed-Media Dollhouses: Techniques and Ideas for Doll-size Assemblages will be with us for this fun event.
Unique Los Angeles Spring Show is this weekend, and so today I thought I'd share a little inside peek from her book.
Click on the page to enlarge and read more. What I loved about it was simply this: In my quest to cull the craft supplies, I was planning on sending my stash of mardi gras beads off to the land of another and just when I thought it was safe, here is a fabulous use for them to trim the edge of a mixed-media doll house.
There are simply tons of great ideas for making lots of little things for these great vignettes.
Mixed-Media Dollhouses: Techniques and Ideas for Doll-size Assemblages
By
Tally Oliveau and Julie Molina
This book takes the artistic approach of assemblage and collage, and combines it with the long-loved tradition of making doll houses--but these doll houses are anything but traditional! Begun as an artistic challenge between a group of talented friends, these mixed-media doll houses include beautiful castles, undersea fantasy-lands, gothic attics, inspiring tree houses and much more. Authors Tally Oliveau and Julie Molina share a host of interesting alteration techniques while showing readers how to construct beautiful, fantasy doll houses. Readers learn to how to construct or repurpose found boxes into rooms and houses, how to decorate interior surfaces, how to build miniature furnishings, how to make their own paper dolls, and how to embellish their houses using a variety of imaginative materials.Tally Oliveau is a collage and mixed media artist and has been widely published in Somerset Studio, Belle Amoire, Somerset Memories, and Somerset Home. Tally is the president of Papier Studio, a greeting card company. Her artistic cards are sold in stores all over the country. She lives and teaches in Los Angeles, CA.
Julie Molina is a collage and mixed media artist. She has been published in several of Stampington's publications including Somerset Studios Magazine and her work is included in 1000 Artist Journal Pages by Dawn DeVries Sokol. Julie lives in Los Angeles, CA.